Proton’s nearest neighbors in the nucleus

Written by Chemistry Blog From Networlddirectory on November 18, 2010 – 2:16 pm -

A recent experiment at the Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility has observed that a proton's nearest neighbors in the nucleus of the atom may modify the proton's internal structure. When comparing large nuclei to small nuclei, past measurements have shown a clear difference in how the proton's constituent particles, called quarks, are distributed. This difference is called the EMC Effect........

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