Apr 23, 2022
Mirror nuclei shed light on mysterious EMC effect
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in category: particle physics
The study was done by the international Jefferson Lab Angular Momentum (JAM) collaboration using data from the MARATHON experiment, which is at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility in the US. The team’s results could help physicists better understand how quarks are distributed inside protons and neutrons and why these distributions are different when protons and neutrons are incorporated within nuclei.