Scientists hoping to unravel the mystery of proton spin at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), a 2.4-mile-circumference particle accelerator at Brookhaven National Laboratory, have a new tool ...

At scales too small for the human eye to see, there is an entire zoo of subatomic particles with bizarre names like baryon, pion, and quark. And physicists have only just begun to unveil the curtain ...

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Nuclear physicists have found that the internal structures of protons and neutrons may be altered in different ways inside nuclei DOE/Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility NEWPORT NEWS, VA – ...