For a quarter of a century, physicists have faced a paradox regarding the net spin of protons and neutrons – the spin of their constituent quarks accounts for only a small fraction of their overall spin. Now, new research carried out by physicists in Argentina and Germany who have analysed data produced by the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), suggests that the missing spin might come from gluons that hold quarks together.

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