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Neutron Shows Its Gluons for the First Time
A neutron confined in a nucleus behaves differently from a free one. Its gluon cloud, which holds quarks together, compresses like a spring under load. Previously, this could only be assumed, but now physicists have directly observed the effect for the first time.
At Jefferson Lab, an electron beam struck liquid deuterium, knocking photons out of the nuclei.