Scientists at CERN have observed an unexpected phenomenon within the world’s largest particle accelerator that suggests that ...

The CMS and ATLAS experiments at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider have observed an unforeseen feature in the behaviour of top ...

Researchers from the Institute of Modern Physics (IMP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), together with collaborators from the Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica in Brazil and Iowa State ...

Pairs of top quarks and antiquarks (illustrated) are produced in collisions of protons at the Large Hadron Collider. Scientists have uncovered evidence of quantum entanglement between the particles.

But it is not incontrovertible proof of a glueball. Another interaction between quarks and antiquarks might create this particle, and there also seems to be a few too many produced by the J/ψ decay.

These force-carrying particles are the glue that binds baryonic matter together. Gluons are suitably named because they are the 'glue' that binds quarks together to form the likes of protons and ...

Protons and neutrons contain whole seas of quarks, antiquarks and gluons. Inside a proton or a neutron, particles and antiparticles constantly collide and annihilate one another.

Each of the six quarks has its own corresponding antiquark. Normally, matter and antimatter annihilate each other when they contact, but quarks and antiquarks can co-exist inside particles.