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New Quark Discovery Reveals a Critical Clue About The Birth of The Universe
A pair of top quarks has been detected in the detritus spraying forth from the collision of two atoms of lead.
A Giant Atom Smasher 656 Feet Below the Earth Could Show Us Physics We’ve Never Seen
The proposed 91-kilometer collider could be up and running by the 2040s, but it won't perform high-energy physics until 2070.
Intriguing excess of top-quark pairs hints at discovery of smallest composite particle
The CMS collaboration at CERN has observed an unexpected feature in data produced by the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), which ...
Symmetry between up and down quarks is more broken than expected
Wojciech Brylinski was analyzing data from the NA61/SHINE collaboration at CERN for his thesis when he noticed an unexpected ...
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Giant US collider plans to smash 50 billion gold atoms after 25 years of research
Researchers from the US have marked the collider's 25th and final year by smashing together gold nuclei traveling near the ...
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Physicists have confirmed a new mismatch between matter and antimatter
Charge-parity violation is thought to explain why there’s more matter than antimatter in the universe. Scientists just spotted it in a new place.
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New precise calculation of nuclear beta decays paves the way to uncover physics beyond the standard model
Through the weak nuclear force, one quark flavor can transmute into another. However, current data and theory indicate that ...