Imaging the proton with neutrinos

The interactions of the quarks and gluons that make up protons and neutrons are so sturdy that the construction of protons and neutrons is troublesome to calculate from principle and have to be as a substitute measured experimentally. Neutrino experiments use targets which are nuclei manufactured from many protons and neutrons sure collectively. This complicates decoding these measurements to deduce proton construction. By scattering neutrinos from the protons which are the nuclei of hydrogen atoms within the MINERvA detector, scientists have supplied the primary measurements of this construction with neutrinos utilizing unbound protons.