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.

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 ...

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 ...

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

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.

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.

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, ...

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.

When the charm quark did turn up, it was as a constituent of the J/psi particle, whose discovery in 1974 finally convinced physicists that quarks were real. Particles containing a charm quark are ...

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.

Cracow, 23 November 2023 - 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 ...

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 ...