Do Spinning Quarks and Swirling Glue make up the Proton Spin?
Edward R. Kinney, (Tel. 49-40-8998-4578, Fax 49-40-8998-4034, Edward.Kinney@colorado.edu) University of Colorado & Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron Boulder, Colorado, USA Ed Kinney’s Home Page Can be reached at Hyatt Regency Columbus, 614-463-1234, April 18-20. Popular Version of Paper H12.01 Sunday, April 19, 1998, 11:00 AM EDT 1998 APS April Meeting, Columbus For several decades it has become commonly accepted by physicists that the neutron and proton, the particles which make up 99.95% of the matter of which we and our surroundings are made, are themselves made up of smaller objects known as quarks held together by a force field called the “glue.” The existence of these quarks has been difficult to establish because they have never been observed singly, but always in clusters of at least two or three. This is now understood to be a result of the glue, rather than the quarks, as this glue is so strong as to be able to create more quarks, rather than allow a quark to remain isolated.
