Physicists know from previous experiments that what happens at the nuclear scale to protons and neutrons also affects their ...

In recent years, there have been attempts to describe the inside of a proton using quantum information tools, with partial ...

Scientists believe such a substance of free quarks and gluons, the building blocks of protons and neutrons, permeated the universe a fraction of a second after the Big Bang. RHIC's energetic ...

Inside the proton, quarks and gluons shift and morph their properties in ways that physicists are still struggling to understand. Rithya Kunnawalkam Elayavalli brings to the problem a perspective ...

These quarks and gluons bind under the influence of quantum chromodynamics (QCD). QCD is the theory of strong interaction of quarks and the role of color symmetry.

I recently read a feature interview in Quanta Magazine of physicist Rithya Kunnawalkam Elayavalli, an assistant professor at Vanderbilt University who studies the formation of protons and neutrons ...

These collisions can create a state of matter known as quark-gluon plasma (QGP), where quarks and gluons, the fundamental constituents of protons and neutrons, are no longer confined within ...