New results from the STAR detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) suggest that gluons, the glue-like particles that hold quarks together inside protons, play a central role in the conservation of baryon number—an essential part of a particle's quantum identity.
Source: [Phys.org](https://phys.org/news/2026-08-gluons-play-central-role-baryon.html)