High-energy nuclear collisions recreate extreme conditions similar to those in the early universe, producing quark–gluon ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Event display of collisions between Neon-20 and Oxygen-16 at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. (CREDIT: University of Copenhagen) ...

The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) Collaboration, a large group of researchers from different institutes worldwide, has recently gathered the very first evidence of top quark production in ...

Scientists are dreaming up ways to probe the nature of the Universe’s smallest bits—quarks—by observing ultra-dense neutron stars slamming into each other. Particle colliders in Switzerland and on ...

Physicists at CERN have recreated a state of matter from the Universe’s first moments by colliding atomic nuclei far smaller than previously expected. The experiment produced quark-gluon plasma while ...

Scientists working on CERN’s ALICE experiment have reported the first observation of a distinctive flow pattern among quarks in proton-proton collisions, a signal long associated with quark-gluon ...

Quark coalescer: the LHCb experiment being upgraded several years ago. (Courtesy: Maximilien Brice/CERN) Physicists working on the LHCb experiment have seen evidence that “quark coalescence” plays a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A pair of top quarks has been detected in the detritus spraying forth from the collision of two atoms of lead. This means that ...

This has been a ludicrously exciting week. Monday and Tuesday I did my first shifts in the ATLAS control room, taking more and more data from lead-lead collisions in the LHC. In the quiet moments I ...

In the universe of high-energy physics, the smallest building blocks of matter (or anti-matter) make the biggest news. Take subatomic particles, for instance. Colliding into each other at nearly the ...

The particles known as quarks were suggested as a way of making sense of a large collection of particles that kept popping out of our atom smashers. While some particles, like electrons and neutrinos, ...