Nevertheless, mesons decay quite quickly, offering a crucial opportunity for symmetry to be broken. One paper reports on the ...

The problem with studying this state of matter is that quarks decay very, very quickly, in just a tiny fraction of a second. The quark-gluon plasma that emerged after the Big Bang only existed for ...

Although the quark–gluon plasma at the LHC vanishes after about 10-23 s, scientists can study it by analysing how other particles produced in collisions move through it. The top quark is the heaviest ...

Usually, but not in this scenario. Instead, the top quarks decay into a bottom quark and a W boson, which is one of two bosons responsible for the weak force.

Now, for the first time, scientists have observed this rare decay, and they have found that it might have slightly higher odds of occurring than its predicted chance of about one in 10 billion.

Nevertheless, mesons decay quite quickly, offering a crucial opportunity for symmetry to be broken. One paper reports on the decay of charged beauty mesons, composed of either a beauty quark and ...