At scales too small for the human eye to see, there is an entire zoo of subatomic particles with bizarre names like baryon, pion, and quark. And physicists have only just begun to unveil the curtain ...

Nuclear physicists have found that the internal structures of protons and neutrons may be altered in different ways inside nuclei DOE/Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility NEWPORT NEWS, VA – ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it. There were a huge variety of potential new physics signatures that ...

Pentaquarks do not fit into the traditional quark model of hadrons, but understanding these exotic new particles is offering fresh insights into the subtleties of the strong interaction Five quarks In ...

UPTON, NY—A collaboration of nuclear theorists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, Argonne National Laboratory, Temple University, Adam Mickiewicz University of ...

Nature is the ultimate puzzle player, as scientists at the European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN) found out last week. In the late 1950s, particle physics was in crisis. Being the branch of ...