Physicists Find Evidence for How Protons Carry Their Identity

Aug 14, 2026 - 12:30
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Physicists Find Evidence for How Protons Carry Their Identity
Quark and gluons inside a proton. Image credit: Brookhaven National Laboratory.

The baryon number appears to be carried not by the proton’s three quarks alone, but by the web of gluons that binds those quarks together -- a structure known as a baryon junction.

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