A particle with an energy of 200 billion electron volts, for example, might be enough to pry apart the three tightly bound quarks that theoretically constitute a proton.

Physicists have announced the discovery of a new type of pentaquark 1. Most ordinary matter is made up of three-quark particles —protons and neutrons. The five-particle pentaquarks and their ...

Researchers from the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences have developed a new model incorporating quark-gluon interactions while accounting for nucleon pairing. This ...

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

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

In a first-of-its-kind experiment conducted at the world's most powerful particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), scientists have attempted to discover if the universe's heaviest ...

Let’s take, for example, the proton: the particle that is found at the center of atomic nuclei. It is made of three quarks, and it doesn’t have a net charge from the strong nuclear force.

900 Physicists On The Hunt For The Elusive Top Quark. Trillions of times smaller than a grain of sand and smaller than an atomic proton or neutron, quarks are among the smallest particles in the ...

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.

Neutron stars in the universe, ultracold atomic gases in the laboratory, and the quark–gluon plasma created in collisions of atomic nuclei at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC): they may seem ...

Scientists used a particle accelerator to create quark soup, ... The accelerator’s 2.4-mile-long ring allows atomic nuclei to speed around it at 80,000 times a second ...

A new supercomputer analysis of neutron stars has revealed that there's between an 80% and 90% chance that these bodies have cores packed with free quarks, which are fundamental, subatomic ...