The inside of a proton is one of the most dynamic yet elusive realms in physics. Within this tiny particle, quarks and gluons interact in a constantly shifting sea of virtual particles. Now, using quantum information theory and the concept of quantum entanglement, scientists have developed a new framework to describe these interactions with unprecedented clarity.
For the first time, this approach successfully explains data from all available experiments involving the scattering of secondary particles in deep inelastic collisions between electrons and protons. The breakthrough comes from an international team of theorists from Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) and Stony Brook University (SBU) in New York, Universidad de las Américas Puebla (UDLAP) in Mexico, and the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IFJ PAN) in Cracow.
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