{"id":620974,"date":"2019-06-18T10:10:48","date_gmt":"2019-06-18T14:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=620974"},"modified":"2019-06-18T10:10:48","modified_gmt":"2019-06-18T14:10:48","slug":"how-a-walk-through-cerns-corridors-helped-lead-to-the-discovery-of-the-gluon-40-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=620974","title":{"rendered":"How a walk through CERN&#039;s corridors helped lead to the discovery of the gluon 40 years ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forty years ago, in 1979, experiments at the DESY laboratory in Germany provided the first direct proof of the existence of gluons\u2014the carriers of the strong force that &#8220;glue&#8221; quarks into protons, neutrons and other particles known collectively as hadrons. This discovery was a milestone in the history of particle physics, as it helped establish the theory of the strong force, known as quantum chromodynamics.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-06-cern-corridors-discovery-gluon-years.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">How a walk through CERN&#8217;s corridors helped lead to the discovery of the gluon 40 years ago<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forty years ago, in 1979, experiments at the DESY laboratory in Germany provided the first direct proof of the existence of gluons\u2014the carriers of the strong force that &#8220;glue&#8221; quarks&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-620974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=620974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=620974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=620974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=620974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}