Rolf Ent has worked at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility in Newport News, Va., since 1993. He is associate director of experimental nuclear physics there and has been a spokesperson for multiple experiments studying the quark-gluon structure of hadrons and atomic nuclei.
The Mysteries of the World's Tiniest Bits of Matter
Physicists have known for decades that particles called gluons keep protons and neutrons intact—and thereby hold the universe together. Yet the details of how gluons function remain surprisingly mysterious