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CERN Experiment Finds Gluons Behaving Strangely Deep Inside Atomic Nuclei


ALICE measurements suggest that gluons inside nuclei begin behaving collectively at very small scales, favoring gluon saturation over conventional nuclear shadowing alone.

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