Particle detectors play a crucial role in our understanding of the fundamental building blocks of the universe. They allow scientists to study the ...

Carnegie Mellon University's Professor Curtis Meyer and his research colleagues explore an uncharted world inside protons and ...

Protons are far from simple particles — they are swirling cauldrons of quarks, gluons, and quantum entanglement. Scientists ...

In a major milestone for particle physics, scientists at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have successfully observed top ...

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

In recent years, there have been attempts to describe the inside of a proton using quantum information tools, with partial ...

I recently read a feature interview in Quanta Magazine of physicist Rithya Kunnawalkam Elayavalli, an assistant professor at Vanderbilt University who studies the formation of protons and neutrons ...

For decades, the realm of particle physics has been governed by two major categories: fermions and bosons. Fermions, like quarks and leptons, make up matter, while ... Continue Reading → ...

After decades of study, scientists sound genuinely optimistic about the possibility of detecting primordial black holes, which might explain dark matter.

Once a year, the Large Hadron Collider smashes lead ions. But how do scientists get a heavy metal into a particle accelerator ...

n = 4.5. Credit: D D’Enterria/ALICE Collab. In high-energy collisions at the LHC, prompt photons are those that do not originate from particle decays and are instead directly produced by the hard ...