At the world’s most powerful colliders, physicists are finally catching sight of particles that almost never leave a trace, a ...

A boiling sea of quarks and gluons, including virtual ones—this is how we can imagine the main phase of high-energy proton ...

Physics at the smallest scales is a challenge of observation: Particles are often fleeting, and the forces that govern their behavior are nearly imperceptible. But now, by exploiting decades-old data ...

Protons might be stretchier than they should be. The subatomic particles are built of smaller particles called quarks, which are bound together by a powerful interaction known as the strong force. New ...

An invisible force has long eluded detection within the halls of the world’s most famous particle accelerator—until now.

Seeing the proton beam Top row: relative dose distribution in a water phantom for 200, 207 and 215 MeV proton beams at 32 nA, as measured by radiochromic film. Middle row: MR images showing the ...

WASHINGTON, D.C., July 20, 2009 -- Proton therapy -- which uses beams of the subatomic particles to treat cancer -- is a hot topic at this year's American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) ...

Proton running for 2010 in the LHC at CERN came to a successful conclusion on November 4. Since the end of March, when the first collisions occurred at a total energy of 7 TeV, the machine and ...

Physics is insane, and doesn’t always follow the laws we’ve formulated over the last several thousands of years of accrued observation and analysis. Case in point: a new study published today in ...

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Proton radiography set-up showing the two 2D proton detectors on either side of the head phantom along with the residual energy detector. (Courtesy: James Welsh) One major challenge when delivering ...

Big problems sometimes come in small packages. The problem with which physicists must now concern themselves measures a mere 0.0350 millionth of a millionth of a millimetre. This is precisely the ...