The charm quark is a heavier cousin of the up and down quarks that make up much of the matter around us. The charm quark is one of six quarks that, along with leptons, form the basic building blocks ...

The strong interaction is one of the fundamental forces of nature, which binds quarks into hadrons such as the proton and the neutron, the building blocks of atoms. According to the quark model, ...

Since the discovery of the Higgs boson a decade ago, the ATLAS and CMS collaborations at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have been hard at work trying to unlock the secrets of this special particle.

The first tetraquark comprising all charm quarks and antiquarks may have been spotted by physicists working on the LHCb experiment on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. The exotic hadron was ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

The proton, a particle found at the heart of every atom, appears to have a more complicated structure than is traditionally given in textbooks. The find could have ramifications for sensitive particle ...

John Iliopoulos of the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris and Luciano Maiani of the Università degli Studi di Roma have been awarded the 2007 Dirac medal. Iliopoulos and Maiani each win $5,000 “for ...

Why is there something rather than nothing? This is a question that has, for the longest time, perplexed physicists. If our current understanding of the universe is correct, it should not even exist.

Ramona Vogt is at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA, and in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Davis, Davis, California, USA. At ...