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 ...

The team saw a surplus of top quark–antiquark pairs, which is often considered as a smoking gun for the presence of new particles. Intriguingly, the excess appeared at the very minimum energy ...

Although we depict quarks, antiquarks and gluons as having colors or anticolors, this is only an analogy. The actual science is even more fascinating. E. SIEGEL / BEYOND THE GALAXY.

Quarks and antiquarks, which interact with the strong nuclear force, have color charges that... [+] correspond to red, green and blue (for the quarks) and cyan, magenta and yellow (for the ...

Quarks come in six different flavors, all differing in mass and charge: up, down, strange, charm, bottom, and top (from lightest to the heaviest), along with their corresponding antiquarks.

Quarks and antiquarks at high momentum shake the foundations of visible matter. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2021 / 10 / 211013152213.htm ...

Quarks and antiquarks are always bound in groups of three in baryons (e.g. protons and neutrons) or antibaryons (e.g. antiprotons and antineutrons), or in bound quark-antiquark pairs known as mesons.

“Within the proton, quarks and antiquarks are held together by extremely strong nuclear forces—so great that they can create antimatter-matter quark pairs out of empty space!” she explained.

Artist's impression of the short-lived union of a top quark and a top antiquark formed by the exchange of gluons. (Image: D.