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

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

A new and powerful particle detector just passed a critical test in its goal to decipher the ingredients of the early ...

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

Heavy-ion physics is a dynamic field that investigates the behaviour of matter under extreme conditions by colliding nuclei at relativistic speeds. Such collisions create a short-lived, ...

Space is an amazing physics laboratory, because we can see stars and other objects behaving under extreme conditions. Space.com columnist and astrophysicist Paul Sutter explains how quark stars work ...

A new review examines the three decades of the LHCb experiment, its achievements and future potential. A new review published in EPJ H by Clara Matteuzzi, Research Director at the National Institute ...

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Scientists have observed the Higgs boson interacting with the top quark, the heaviest known elementary particle, in an exciting discovery that deepens our understanding of why objects in the universe ...