The formation and experimental detection of such a state (called the quark-gluon plasma or QGP) is the primary objective of high-energy nuclear physics. Dennis Perepelitsa: I study the properties of ...

In a first-of-its-kind experiment conducted at the world's most powerful particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), scientists have attempted to discover if the universe's heaviest ...

Feynman's Caltech rival and colleague Murray Gell-Mann had yet to propose the quark model of particle physics, and scanning probe microscopes and carbon nanotubes were still decades away.

But some physicists and astronomers have argued that within the dense heart of a neutron star, quarks might break free to create a quark star. Some have even suggested that quarks within a neutron ...

So those in the lab couldn’t see a top quark when one was formed ... search for yet another elusive piece of the particle physics puzzle, the Higgs boson — sometimes called the “God Particle.” ...

The emission of beta radiation provides evidence that neutrons and protons are made up of quarks. Beta (\(\beta^-\)) decay is the release of an electron by the change of a neutron to a proton.

Protons and neutrons are both types of baryon mesons - Made up of a quark and antiquark pair There are six types of quarks. These give hadrons electrical charge and this is important in the ...

This pattern had already been shown in nuclear physics data, so seeing it replicated here in a model built on the quark-gluon description of nuclei directly links these two realms. “Even though ...