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The Electron-Ion Collider: new accelerator could solve the mystery of how matter holds together – The Conversation UK

The force of nature that holds the atomic nucleus together is poorly understood, but that may be about to change.

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When the Nobel Prize-winning US physicist Robert Hofstadter and his team fired highly energetic electrons at a small vial of hydrogen at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center in 1956, they opened the door to a new era of physics. Until then, it was thought…

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