Recently, though particle physicists have unearthed ... and dissolve into basically soup. That’s quark-gluon plasma. It can be created by smashing atomic nuclei together at very high speeds ...

Trillions of times smaller than a grain of sand and smaller than an atomic proton or ... construction of two powerful particle detectors to hunt down the top quark. Over the next few years ...

Hypernuclei contain protons and neutrons like ordinary atomic nuclei and also unstable ... two antineutrons, and a quark-containing particle called an "antilambda." Now, ALICE has followed this ...