Using the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a team of researchers recently tested whether top quarks also follow the special ...

Before the quark and antiquark destroy each other, they may form a very brief, intermediate particle. Particle physicists think that this intermediary particle may be the rho meson, a particle ...

In the first study of its kind at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the CMS collaboration has tested whether top quarks adhere ...

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

Quark: A fundamental particle and a basic constituent of matter, which combines to form protons and neutrons. Gluon: A fundamental particle that acts as the exchange particle for the strong force ...

Researchers at the Large Hadron Collider tested whether top quarks, the most massive known elementary particles, comply with ...

This is possible because just as a RHIC collision can kick an energetic quark or gluon free, that interaction can also produce a high energy photon, or particle of light. These direct photons are ...

The centers of neutron stars are expected to reach the highest particle densities in the universe, so it is possible that neutron stars harbor quark matter in their inner cores. Studying the ...