Using the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a team of researchers recently tested whether top quarks also follow the special theory of relativity. The top quark is the heaviest known f ...

In a major milestone for particle physics, scientists at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have successfully observed top ...

Physicists know from previous experiments that what happens at the nuclear scale to protons and neutrons also affects their ...

The Large Hadron Collider Beauty (LHCb) collaboration has observed a type of four-quark particle never seen before. The discovery, presented at a recent seminar at CERN and described in a paper ...

Before the quark and antiquark destroy each other, they may form a very brief, intermediate particle. Particle physicists think that this intermediary particle may be the rho meson, a particle ...

This is possible because just as a RHIC collision can kick an energetic quark or gluon free, that interaction can also produce a high energy photon, or particle of light. These direct photons are ...

Along with quantum mechanics, Einstein's special theory of relativity serves as the basis of the Standard Model of particle physics ... that the rate at which top-quark pairs are produced in ...

The way round this is to use powerful computers to simulate the most probable arrangements of quarks and gluons inside a particle ... which the real up and down quark masses are very small.

Scientists at the PHENIX experiment at RHIC have uncovered compelling evidence that even collisions involving small nuclei ...