A team of researchers have made progress in understanding how some of the Universe's heaviest particles behave under extreme ...

If one of these high-speed bits of matter struck an atomic particle, they calculated, its tremendous energy would accomplish what no man-made atom smasher can do: split that particle into its ...

After their theoretical discovery, scientists around the world raced to find the top quark - small particles, imperceptible to a human's naked eye.

Scientists have found an intriguing discrepancy in the way electrons behave in different calcium atoms. The difference between the observations and actual theoretical calculation is subtle; however, ...

The top quark decays into a bottom quark and a W boson in the time it takes light to travel just 0.1 femtometer—a fraction of the size of the particle itself.

Physicists from the Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) have been conducting research on the matter constituting the atomic nucleus, utilizing the world’s three most powerful particle ...

Scientists used a particle accelerator to create quark soup, a substance that hasn't existed for 13 billion years.

Do top quarks, nature's heaviest elementary particle, obey Einstein's rules at all times of day and night? Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider have the answer.

Scientists from CERN have measured the speed of sound in the quark-gluon plasmas with record precision, a key step to ...

High-energy ion collisions at the Large Hadron Collider are capable of producing a quark-gluon plasma. But are heavy atomic nuclei really necessary for its formation? And above all: how are ...

A New Particle Has Been Discovered – It Could Be The Elusive Glueball This is a particle made exclusively of strong nuclear force carriers.

The charm quark is one of six quarks that, along with leptons, form the basic building blocks of ordinary matter. It is hundreds of times more massive than the up and down quarks that make up protons ...