There are plenty of types of stars out there, but one stands out for being just a little weirder than the others. You might ...

New force distributions revealed by the calculations, on top of the probability map of finding a quark in the proton. Joshua ...

Around 13.7 billion years ago, something collapsed. It fell outward into the nothingness that stretched in every direction, ...

Researchers have been working for decades to understand the architecture of the subatomic world. One of the knottier ...

At a talk held at CERN this week, the ATLAS collaboration at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) reported observing top quarks in collisions between lead ions, marking the first observation of this ...

Protons are far from simple particles — they are swirling cauldrons of quarks, gluons, and quantum entanglement. Scientists ...

Physicists know from previous experiments that what happens at the nuclear scale to protons and neutrons also affects their ...

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Most top quarks are produced in top–antitop pairs by the strong force. The production rate for this process is substantial (it has a cross-section of about 7 picobarns) and the presence of two ...