Theory-based approach gives access to quarks' tiny transverse motion within protons
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Theory-based approach gives access to quarks' tiny transverse motion within protons

Nuclear theorists at Brookhaven National Laboratory and Argonne National Laboratory have successfully employed a new theoretical approach to calculate the Collins-Soper kernel, a quantity that describes how the distribution of quarks' transverse momentum inside a proton changes with the collision energy.