In the theoretical study of proton-nucleus collisions, the colliding projectiles can be described as streams of color charges ...

What happens when three different kinds of particles interact, and each pair behaves differently?

Elementary particles possess particle-like properties due to the excitation of fields. So, what kind of elementary particles ...

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A theory of fast-moving heavy quarks reveals rare momentum jolts missed by simple bell curves, offering a possible probe of ...

"To create matter from just after the universe was born, you have no choice but to collide heavy atomic nuclei"—this long-standing common sense is now being rewritten. One year after the first-ever ...

An upgraded LHCb detector has revealed evidence of a beauty meson decay predicted once in 10 billion cases, giving physicists ...

A figure in red trudges across a blanket of white. Snow squeaks under the scientist's feet, too dry to be slick or soft. Only ...

Scientists at CERN's Large Hadron Collider have uncovered compelling new evidence that even relatively small atomic collisions can recreate the extraordinary state of matter that filled the universe ...

Physicists long assumed that recreating the matter of the newborn universe meant colliding lead nuclei. All four of the Large ...

Physicists have been chasing a particle decay for more than 40 years. According to the calculations, it happens just once for ...

Scientists have recreated a primordial state of matter from the dawn of the universe by colliding oxygen nuclei at nearly the ...