Scientists have now mapped the forces acting inside a proton, showing in unprecedented detail how quarks -- the tiny particles within -- respond when hit by high-energy photons. The international team ...

Do top quarks, nature's heaviest elementary particle, obey Einstein's rules at all times of day and night? Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider have the answer.

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Scientists have now mapped the forces acting inside a proton, showing in unprecedented detail how quarks—the tiny particles ...

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

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The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has discovered 76 new particles so far. In addition to discovering the unique Higgs boson, ...

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