quarks

A graphic showing the lateral motion of a quark (the green ball) inside a proton whose spin is aligned with its direction of motion (the big yellow arrow). Credit: Valerie Lentz, Brookhaven Lab.

Groundbreaking calculations reveal the hidden motion of quarks inside protons

A new theoretical method enables more accurate calculations of the three-dimensional motion of quarks, and leads to a deeper understanding of the dynamics of the proton spin
The early universe immediately after the big bang, with a chaotic background of energy and particles. Small, dense black holes, some the size of an atom, are scattered throughout the image. These black holes are described with a "color charge" aura, symbolizing the unique property of quarks and gluons. Around the black holes is a cosmic landscape of quark-gluon plasma, with hints of the beginnings of proton and neutron formation. The image was prepared using DALEE and is not a scientific image

Exotic black holes may be a byproduct of dark matter

Fifty years ago, physicist Stephen Hawking proposed that dark matter might be a population of black holes, which may have formed shortly after the Big Bang. They also existed for a short time but had an impact on

The antimatter in the proton is more "down" than "up"

Saran: Four new particles were discovered - why is the news important this time?

The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) has announced that the Large Hadron Collider has discovered four new particles, but what has changed? Since the accelerator was first activated in 2009, 59 new particles have been discovered, including the Higgs boson

The race for the leptoquark has begun

A combination of a bully and food yields a particle with five quarks. Illustration: CERN

Scientists have discovered an unknown subatomic particle

An illustration of the two newly discovered particles - on the right: a dibarion with 6 quarks and a tetra-quark with 4 quarks. Illustration: Jülich University, Germany

The existence of a new quark particle was confirmed

Gossip Signs: A photo of a particle collision in the CMS detector shows the decay products of the Xi_b^* baryon. Among other things, you see two muons (the red lines). Photo: CERN

A new particle has been discovered at the Axon particle accelerator

From the exhibition "Universe of Particles" that opened at CERN on July 1, 2010

Apparently more than ten top quarks were discovered at the LHC

Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

Quark researchers won the Nobel Prize in Physics