Experiments at CERN and the Accelerator Laboratory in Jyväskylä, Finland, have revealed that the radius of an exotic nucleus of aluminum, 26m Al, is much larger than previously thought. The result, ...

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In collisions of argon and scandium atomic nuclei, scientists from the international NA61/SHINE experiment have observed a clear anomaly indicative of a violation of one of the most important ...

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When considering what makes up a human body, a physicist drills down beyond the atomic level. Columnist Chanda ...

A new way to study quarks, one of the building blocks of the protons and neutrons that make up atomic nuclei, is proposed. This has never been done before and doing so would help answer many ...

After restarting to run at higher power than ever, the Large Hadron Collider has made its first proper discovery. Today, a team of scientists announced that they’ve found a new class of sub-atomic ...

Physicists running experiments using the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have confirmed the existence of a new class of sub-atomic particles called pentaquarks. The existence of sub-atomic particles ...

For decades, physicists have searched in vain for exotic bound states comprising more than three quarks. Experiments have now shown that, in fact, such complex particles do exist in nature. The ...