A new particle detector has passed a crucial test, demonstrating it's ready to start investigating quark-gluon plasma, the ...

The top quark’s extreme mass makes it decay almost immediately after it is produced. “The top and antitop quarks just have ...

Scientists have proposed a new kind of subatomic particle to explain another particle’s mysterious disintegration. What just ...

A decade in the making, this upgraded detector will explore the properties of the quark-gluon plasma that formed a millionth ...

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 ...

As the story of quarkonia draws to a close, John Ellis shares personal recollections of five decades of discoveries and ...

A groundbreaking particle detector in New York, known as sPHENIX, has successfully passed a crucial standard candle test, ...

RIVERSIDE, Calif. – A group of 50 international physicists, led by UC Riverside’s Ann Heinson, has detected for the first time a subatomic particle, the top quark, produced without the simultaneous ...

Laboratory experiments have recreated the conditions that existed in the early universe before the quarks and gluons created in the big bang had formed the protons and neutrons that make up the world ...

The Higgs boson appeared again at the world's largest atom smasher — this time, alongside a top quark and an antitop quark, the heaviest known fundamental particles. And this new discovery could help ...

The Higgs boson appeared again at the world's largest atom smasher — this time, alongside a top quark and an antitop quark, the heaviest known fundamental particles. And this new discovery could help ...