Using the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a team of researchers recently tested whether top quarks also follow the special ...

The Standard Model of particle physics takes this motto to heart: it contains three so-called generations of elementary particles. Take the quarks as an example. In addition to the pair of quark ...

Physicists know from previous experiments that what happens at the nuclear scale to protons and neutrons also affects their ...

The formation and experimental detection of such a state (called the quark-gluon plasma or QGP) is the primary objective of high-energy nuclear physics. Dennis Perepelitsa: I study the properties of ...

In the first study of its kind at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the CMS collaboration has tested whether top quarks adhere ...

And why that's James Joyce. Surely, you've heard of quarks. In theoretical physics, the term quark denotes an elementary particle – a fundamental component of matter. The name itself was first used ...

Through QCD we can describe the proton as a superposition of quark-gluon states that can include states of ... Probing Nuclear Structure and Testing the Standard Model of Particle Physics ...

Scientists at the PHENIX experiment at RHIC have uncovered compelling evidence that even collisions involving small nuclei ...

Researchers at the Large Hadron Collider tested whether top quarks, the most massive known elementary particles, comply with ...

Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP): A state of matter ... Hydrodynamics: A branch of physics that studies the motion of fluids and the forces acting on them, often used to describe the behavior of matter ...

a DOE Office of Science user facility for nuclear physics research that began operating at Brookhaven Lab in 2000. Jets are created when a quark or gluon within a proton or neutron in one of RHIC ...