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Sep 18, 2024

Nuclear theorists turn to supercomputers to map out matter’s building blocks in 3D

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Deep inside what we perceive as solid matter, the landscape is anything but stationary. The interior of the building blocks of the atom’s nucleus—particles called hadrons that a high school student would recognize as protons and neutrons—are made up of a seething mixture of interacting quarks and gluons, known collectively as partons.

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