Particle accelerators reveal the heart of nuclear matter by smashing together atoms at close to the speed of light. The ...
An MIT-led team has found that data from “near-misses” at the Large Hadron Collider, long dismissed as background noise, can ...
Deep inside every atom lies a restless world of quarks and gluons—the tiny building ...
Ready to go: the Belle II experiment will run on Japan's SuperKEKB accelerator. (Courtesy: KEK) The first electron–positron collisions occurred at an upgrade to one of Japan’s premier particle-physics ...
Heavy collisions Artist’s impression charged particle tracks streaming from a collision of two uranium nuclei overlaid on a sketch of the STAR detector at RHIC. The incoming uranium nuclei are shown ...
The ALICE Collaboration takes a step further in addressing the question of whether a quark–gluon plasma can be formed in ...
Scientists studying particle collisions at CERN have captured new evidence of how quarks move through the early universe’s ...
In a paper in Nature, the ALICE Collaboration 1 reports that data from high-energy collisions between protons can be used to investigate the little-understood nuclear forces between protons and ...