Explore the fundamental particles and forces of nature through the Standard Model, accelerators, neutrinos and high-energy experiments.
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The Standard Model is the quantum theory that describes known elementary particles and the electromagnetic, weak and strong interactions among them, but it does not include a quantum description of gravity.
The Higgs boson is the quantum excitation of the Higgs field, a field that fills space and is central to how elementary particles acquire mass in the…
The Large Hadron Collider is CERN’s 27-kilometer particle accelerator that circulates beams of protons or heavy ions in opposite directions and colli…
Particle physics studies the fundamental constituents of matter and radiation, the forces that act between them, and the high-energy processes that r…
Neutrinos are electrically neutral elementary particles with extremely small masses that interact through the weak force and gravity.
For the first time, physicists have created and detected
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Quarks are elementary particles that carry electric and color charge. They bind through the strong interaction to form hadrons such as protons and neutrons.
For the purpose of creating
CERN's large particle accelerator is the machine that found the Higgs boson, a particle thought to have played an important role in the formation of the universe after t…
The world's most powerful particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider, is gearing up for its next run after a three-year hiatus for an upgrade.
The Forward Search Experimental Group (FASER), led by physicists at the University of California, Irvine, has detected neutrino candidates for the first time on the LHC…
Inside the neutron stars is the 'noodle nucleus' - an unusual state of matter, consisting of subatomic particles called quarks.
Upon further study of how the universe works, particle physics experiments are becoming more complex than ever.
The problem of neutrino energy is very important. It is hard to know about the energy of a neutrino and how much energy it has transferred to the atom that it collides w…
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Physicists working on the HyperCP topic at Fermilab (USA) have just confirmed that they can both have initial results on the Higgs boson - the kind of elementary particl…
China wants to build a CEPC particle accelerator (Circular Electron Positron Collider) twice as large as the LHC in Switzerland to further study the Higg Boson particle -
This observatory, IceCube, was built from a giant block of ice in the southern tip of Antarctica, to detect neutrinos - a type of particle that is thought to be mystical…
The neutrinos produced in a nuclear reactor in China can change their flavor faster than normal. This result raises the hope that physicists will soon explain why the un…
The KM3 Observatory is 600m high and has just been completed on the seabed at a depth of 2000m in the area near the island of Sicily in Italy.
Italian scientists say they have for the first time observed Earth neutrinos (antiparticles coming from the Earth's core) in the laboratory.
Recently, US scientists began to conduct an unprecedented large-scale experiment in the history of Neutrino particles.
Physicists confirm that neutrinos - the type of subatomic particles that are considered to play a fundamental role in the creation of the universe - have mass. This is t…