A new theory-based approach provides access to the minute transverse motion of quarks within protons. Nuclear physicists have developed a new theoretical framework that allows them to calculate a ...

Scientists at CERN have observed a rare phenomenon where a single top quark formed alongside W and Z bosons for the first ...

The experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) detect rare events on a daily basis, but some are exceptionally rare, such ...

Quark coalescer: the LHCb experiment being upgraded several years ago. (Courtesy: Maximilien Brice/CERN) Physicists working on the LHCb experiment have seen evidence that “quark coalescence” plays a ...

Editor's note: The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. Since the spectacular discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012, ...

The Nature Index 2024 Research Leaders — previously known as Annual Tables — reveal the leading institutions and countries/territories in the natural and health sciences, according to their output in ...

Quark and gluon sea: in this illustration of the proton the large spheres represent the three valence quarks, the small spheres other quarks and the springs the gluons holding them together. (Courtesy ...

If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. Learn more. It often goes unmentioned that protons, the positively charged matter particles at the center of atoms, are part ...

One of the most important observations in particle physics was the discovery in 1964 of the Omega-minus baryon at Brookhaven National Laboratory. In the two decades leading up to this point over 27 ...