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What do lattice computers reveal about pion and kaon structure?
Constantia Alexandrou, Simone Bacchio, Priyajit Jana, Marcus Petschlies, Luis Alberto Rodriguez Chacon, Gregoris Spanoudes, Fernanda Steffens, Carsten Urbach, Urs Wenger
May 28, 2026
Using supercomputer simulations of quantum chromodynamics, researchers calculated how quarks and gluons are distributed inside pions and kaons—the lightest particle messengers in the strong force. They measured increasingly complex moments of these distributions and reconstructed the full velocity patterns of quarks inside these particles, comparing against earlier lattice results and particle physics predictions.
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