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Standard Model Gets Right Answer for Proton, Neutron Masses
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When it comes to weighty matters, quarks and gluons rule the universe, a new study confirms.
One of the largest computational efforts to calculate the masses of protons and neutrons shows that the standard model of particle physics predicts those masses with an uncertainty of less than 4 percent.
Christian Hoelbling, affiliated with the Bergische Universtät Wuppertal in Germany, the Eötvös University in Budapest and the CNRS in Marseille, France, and his colleagues report their findings in the Nov. 21 Science.
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