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CERN Physicists Find Evidence for Gluon Saturation inside Atomic Nuclei


Physicists working with the ALICE experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider have made the most detailed measurement yet of gluon behavior inside nuclei, finding evidence that the particles may reach a densely packed state known as gluon saturation.

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