Quarks

Gravity helps show strong force strength in the proton

Insights into the environment experienced by the proton’s building blocks.

How do Quark-Gluon-Plasma fireballs explode into Hadrons?

The maximum entropy principle provides a crucial connection.

A novel approach to looking for dark matter

Scientists explore whether Dark Matter particles actually are produced inside a jet of standard model particles.

Scientists determine the thickness of neutron skin in lead-208 nuclei

This is the first measurement of the neutron skin of lead-208 using the strong force.

Calculations reveal high-resolution view of quarks inside protons

Theorists predict differential distribution of 'up' and 'down' quarks within protons.

Experiments reveal Gluon mass in the proton

Our data hint at a scalar gluon distribution.

ATLAS and CMS observed the simultaneous production of four top quarks

A rare phenomenon that could hold the key to physics beyond the Standard Model.

Physicists confirmed a hitch in the proton structure

Nuclear physicists have confirmed that the current description of proton structure isn’t all smooth sailing.

Physicists find signs of pentaquark states and new matter

They examined a heavy particle that decays to lighter particles.

LHCb discovered three new exotic particles

The collaboration has observed a new kind of “pentaquark” and the first-ever pair of “tetraquarks”.

First direct observation of the dead-cone effect in particle physics

The study provides direct experimental access to the mass of an elementary particle known as the charm quark.

The mass of the top quark measured with unparalleled precision

Precise knowledge of the top-quark mass is of paramount importance to understanding our world at smallest scale.

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