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

CMS employed machine learning to probe rare Higgs decays into charm quarks. The search produced the most stringent limits so ...

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

The sPHENIX detector passed calibration, paving the way to study quark-gluon plasma and unlock secrets of the early universe.

Kaons have several known common ways of decaying, but the one in this paper is so rare that scientists weren’t sure it ...

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

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 ...

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 ...