Theory Offers a High-Resolution View of Quarks Inside Protons

Credit: Image courtesy of Brookhaven National Laboratory

A view inside a proton moving at nearly the speed of light toward the viewer with its spin pointing horizontally shows differences in the spatial distributions of the momentum of up (left) and down (right) quarks—white is high; violet is low.

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