New data from particle collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), an "atom smasher" at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, reveals how the ...

For the first time, physicists at CERN confirmed quantum entanglement between top and anti-top quarks during proton collisions. This milestone in high-energy particle physics could provide deeper ...

A quark reaction, which could yield up to ten times as much energy as nuclear fusion, involves the fusion of bottom quarks, subsequently resulting in a larger subatomic particle, a spare particle ...

A newly discovered four-quark particle (illustrated) is the first to contain all heavy quarks, and more than two quarks of the same kind. CERN By Maria Temming ...

Researchers at CERN have discovered a doubly charming new particle, which has long been theorized to exist. Named Ξcc++ (Xicc++), the particle is the first found to contain two heavy quarks, and ...

Unlike protons and electrons, which have charges of +1 and -1, however, quarks have fractional electric charge. Quarks that are joined together form composite particles called hadrons.

This quark-gluon plasma state can exist in three ways: in the early stages immediately following the Big Bang, in particle accelerator collisions of heavy ions, and (potentially) at the centers of ...

30 Miles Up. Arguing that others may have been quark hunting in the wrong places, British Physicists J. B. Hasted and M.R.C. McDowell have suggested a new area of search.