The scientific case for and against baryon junctions

Baryon junctions are a conjectured gluon configuration that carries the baryon quantum number in baryons - rather than each of the quarks carrying baryon numuber 1/3. Such baryon junctions have been proposed to help explain experimental results on baryon stopping in hadron-hadron, hadron-nucleus, and nucleus-nucleus collisions. Recently a resurgence of this proposal has led to a re-examination of past data, as well as ideas for new measurements. In this talk, we examine the scientific case for and against baryon junctions. In particular, we detail the level of scientific scrutiny necessary to claim a discovery in this area.