From nearly indestructible metals, like tungsten, to delicate clouds in the sky, atoms make up everything around us. But do these atoms ever touch each other? As with most topics in atomic physics, ...

To address these problems, the CLAS12 collaboration utilized the Central Neutron Detector, which was developed at France’s ...

At the bottom of the chart are the fundamental particles—quarks, bosons (eg Higgs, w +, w -, z ), protons, neutrons, ...

Scientists at CERN's ALICE detector are replicating conditions found during the Big Bang, attempting to get to the bottom of ...

Electrons, those fundamental particles that orbit atomic nuclei, are central to electromagnetism and chemical processes. Ever ...

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory and collaborators have a new way to use data from high-energy particle smashups to peer inside protons.

The excitement surrounding antimatter propulsion stems from its energy density. When matter and antimatter come into contact, ...

Oct. 12, 2021 — Scientists seeking to explore the teeming microcosm of quarks and gluons inside protons and neutrons report new data delivered by particles of light. The light particles, or ...