The idea that protons and neutrons were composed of even smaller particles, with non-integral electric charges, was proposed in 1963/64 by Andre Petermann, George Zweig and Murray Gell-Mann, who ...

As the story of quarkonia draws to a close, John Ellis shares personal recollections of five decades of discoveries and ...

Michael Riordan surveys the extraordinary year of 1964, which saw the birth of the quark model, the invention of the Higgs ...

The top quark’s extreme mass makes it decay almost immediately after it is produced. “The top and antitop quarks just have ...

Research in fundamental science has revealed the existence of quark-gluon plasma (QGP) – a newly identified state of matter – as the constituent of the early universe. Known to have existed a ...

The Nature Index 2024 Research Leaders — previously known as Annual Tables — reveal the leading institutions and countries/territories in the natural and health sciences, according to their output in ...

CMS employed machine learning to probe rare Higgs decays into charm quarks. The search produced the most stringent limits so ...

Intel's new Quark is designed to fit power consumption targets and devices where even the low-powered Atom can't currently compete. With a new embedded architecture and customized silicon blocks, this ...