Two independent studies have illuminated unexpected substructures in the fundamental components of all matter. Preliminary results using a novel tagging method could explain the origin of the ...
LOS ALAMOS, N.M., February 24, 2021--A complex high-energy nuclear physics experiment, aiming to measure the contributions of antiquarks to the structure of the proton and neutron, has produced ...
At a fundamental level, reality is determined by only two properties of our Universe: the quanta that make up everything that exists and the interactions that take place between them. While the rules ...
In the quest to advance our knowledge of the Universe, the biggest advances always seem to come when an experiment or measurement indicates something new: something our best theories to that date hadn ...
The proton’s antimatter is out of whack. An imbalance between two types of antiparticles that seethe within the proton is even wonkier than previously thought, a new measurement indicates. Protons are ...
Physicists at accelerators in Japan and the United States have detected a subatomic particle that may be unlike any seen before. Some evidence suggests that the particle contains two pairs of more ...
It often goes unmentioned that protons, the positively charged matter particles at the center of atoms, are part antimatter. We learn in school that a proton is a bundle of three elementary particles ...
A new particle has been discovered at Fermilab's Tevatron collider, and researchers say it's exhibiting unusual properties. Unlike normal particles, this one exotic particle contains four 'flavours' ...
Like ghosts in the void, virtual particles can materialize from (almost) nothing.