Heaviest known elementary particles and their antimatter counterparts are detected after nuclear smash-ups at the Large Hadron Collider.

This view of the atomic nucleus changed when James Chadwick ... with one being produced by a gluon radiated by a quark-antiquark pair. Physicists love a particle accelerator, and we have since ...

Institute of Modern Physics (IMP) have proposed a key indicator that could reveal the emergence of quark-gluon plasma (QGP) ...

With the electron, proton, and neutron, scientists thought they had found the smallest atomic building blocks. This changed in 1963 when American physicist Murray Gell-Mann proposed his quark theory.

In nuclear beta decay an up quark ‘u’ in a proton converts into ... in state-of-the-art calculations of the structure of atomic nuclei. Precision studies of the beta disintegration of atomic ...

This fact means that the proton, as far as anyone knows, does not decay – a basic prerequisite for the stability of atomic matter, and so for our existence. The quark model was devised by ...

Scientists have proposed a key indicator that may reveal the emergence of quark-gluon plasma (QGP) by analyzing particle ...

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 ...