Objects are made of atoms, and atoms are likewise the sum of their parts—electrons, protons, and neutrons. Dive into one of those protons or neutrons, however, and things get weird. Three particles ...

Objects are made of atoms, and atoms are likewise the sum of their parts — electrons, protons and neutrons. Dive into one of those protons or neutrons, however, and things get weird. Three particles ...

Quark and gluon sea: in this illustration of the proton the large spheres represent the three valence quarks, the small spheres other quarks and the springs the gluons holding them together. (Courtesy ...

Scientists seeking to confirm earlier measurements of the strange quark's contribution to the proton's magnetic moment have found several surprises, instead. CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Scientists seeking to ...

UPTON, NY--New data from the STAR experiment at the a target="_blank" href="https://www.bnl.gov/rhic/">Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) add detail--and ...

“This research helps reveal how nuclear matter behaves under extreme conditions, like those that existed just after the Big ...

The proton’s antimatter is out of whack. An imbalance between two types of antiparticles that seethe within the proton is even wonkier than previously thought, a new measurement indicates. Protons are ...

A recent Physical Review Letters study presents a new model for quark star merger ejecta that could resolve whether these ...

Physicists around the world are cracking open the proton, within the nucleus of the atom, to see what's inside. The proton is a fundamental building block of the atomic nucleus, and among other things ...

A team of researchers are using the Frontera supercomputer at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) to crack open the proton, a fundamental building block of the atomic nucleus that is used, ...

New data from the STAR experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) add detail -- and complexity -- to an intriguing puzzle that scientists have been seeking to solve: how the building ...