The announcement comes amid a flurry of activity this week at CERN: Also Tuesday, the LHC’s underground ring of superconducting magnets that propel infinitesimal particles along a 27-kilomete… ...

CERN, the world’s largest atom smasher, says it has observed three new "exotic particles" while carrying out its third run of collisions. After a three-year pause for maintenance and routine ...

The sun, a nuclear power plant, and carbon dating all draw their abilities from interactions between particles in the hearts of atoms. Those are, in part, the work of a subatomic particle called ...

Particle physics is sometimes called high-energy physics because scientists can only study subatomic particles using high-energy experiments — for example, by smashing atoms together at nearly ...

The alchemist's dream is to make gold from common metals, but can this be done? The physics needed to explain how to change ...

The collisions will happen under enough heat and pressure to melt protons and neutrons and release their components (quarks and gluons), creating quark-gluon plasma. Quark-gluon plasma was thought to ...

Of course, the subatomic particles have been around since shortly after the Big Bang, but here on Earth nobody knew about them until British physicist, J. J. Thomson announced his discovery on ...

Scale, Proportion, and Quantity: Atoms and subatomic particles exist on an extremely small scale. Structure and Function: The arrangement of protons, neutrons, and electrons determines an atom's ...

Whatever their source, they create a burst of particles when they smash into atoms in the air. Most of the particles, including electrons, photons and short-lived pions, either break down or get ...

Stranger still, as other scientists have deduced, the quarks would be from ten to 20 times as massive as the proton, one of the heaviest of the subatomic particles.