THE Physical Society, in collaboration with the Cavendish Laboratory, is holding a conference at Cambridge under the combined title of “Fundamental Particles” and “Low Temperature Physics ...

Fundamental particles fall within two camps—fermions or bosons—but a new study suggests that hypothetical paraparticles could exist in a kind of inbetween. Although technically quasiparticles ...

The Standard Model is a kind of periodic table of the elements for particle physics. But instead of listing the chemical elements, it lists the fundamental particles that make up the atoms that make ...

The fundamental particles are summarised by the standard model. This includes leptons (such as the electron), the quarks that make up protons and neutrons, and gauge bosons, which mediate forces ...

The range of subatomic particles and fundamental forces are the cutting edge of modern physics. Nuclear reactions Alpha decay involves the release of a helium nucleus. Beta decay involves the ...

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The question of what protons or neutrons are made up of has an apparently simple answer: quarks and gluons. However, when it comes to atoms’ third component, electrons, the answer is not as easy.

DeMille is a pioneering physicist who has developed techniques to search for evidence of new particles and forces that could ...