Science Made Simple: What Are Particle Accelerators?
Particle accelerators, machines that rapidly propel charged particles like protons, atomic nuclei, and electrons to study their collisions, have deepened our understanding of the universe,…
Particle accelerators, machines that rapidly propel charged particles like protons, atomic nuclei, and electrons to study their collisions, have deepened our understanding of the universe,…
Researchers propose in a new study that the universe’s lack of clumpiness suggests dark matter is composed of hypothetical, ultra-light particles called axions. If confirmed,…
Theoretical physicists help expand the search for new particle — ‘axions’ — that could help answer one of the most puzzling questions in physics. One…
Physicist Daniel Harlow explores an alternate quantum reality in search of fundamental truths to our physical universe. Dan Harlow spends a lot of time thinking…
The LHCb collaboration’s new measurements of matter–antimatter asymmetry in decays of beauty particles are the most precise yet of their kind. The Big Bang is…
Particle accelerators, machines that speed up elementary particles, are pivotal in various sectors, including science, product development, healthcare, and national security. Utilized in over 30,000…
The experiments are the first of their kind and could lead to new advances in computing. A team at the University of Chicago has explored…
Scientists’ calculations indicate that bottomonium mesons, formed by a bottom quark and its antimatter counterpart, require temperatures above 5.8 trillion degrees Celsius to melt. This…
Neutrons are subatomic particles, with a neutral charge and slightly more mass than protons, found in the nucleus of every atom except hydrogen. When not…
Scientists have taken a significant step forward in the study of the properties of quarks and gluons, the particles that make up atomic nuclei, by…
Protons are positively charged subatomic particles found in every atomic nucleus, determining atomic and baryon numbers. Also referred to as nucleons or hadrons, they consist…
Particle collisions offer a new way to study interactions of hyperon particles with ordinary nuclear building blocks, potentially giving insight into the properties of neutron…
What happens if dark-matter particles are produced inside a jet of Standard-Model particles? This leads to a novel detector signature known as semi-visible jets! The…
The ATLAS and CMS collaborations have joined forces to establish the first evidence of the rare decay of the Higgs boson into a Z boson…
It may be that the famous Higgs boson, co-responsible for the existence of masses of elementary particles, also interacts with the world of the new…
Gravitational waves could reveal whether the quark soup that existed in the early Universe is created in neutron-star mergers. RIKEN researchers suggest that gravitational-wave signals…
Scientists from the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research and The Institute of Mathematical Science have predicted the existence of a dibaryon particle, built entirely from…
Researchers have successfully conducted an experiment to verify strong-field quantum electrodynamics with exotic atoms, using a state-of-the-art X-ray detector for high-precision measurements of muonic characteristic…