Michael Riordan has spent decades ruminating on the history of physics, including events he participated in himself.

The atomic nucleus is made up of protons and neutrons, particles that exist through the interaction of quarks bonded by gluons. It would seem ...

The atomic nucleus is made up of protons and neutrons, particles that exist through the interaction of quarks bonded by ...

with one being produced by a gluon radiated by a quark-antiquark pair. Physicists love a particle accelerator, and we have since taken a good look at the six flavors of quarks (up, down, strange, ...

This year, the U.S. Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility celebrates the 40th anniversary of ...

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Researchers from the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences have developed a new model incorporating ...

In collisions between protons at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), pairs of top quarks—the heaviest known elementary particles ...

From the discovery of gravity to the first mission to defend Earth from an asteroid, here are the most important physics ...

Experimental particle physics is the practical investigation of the fundamental components of matter and radiation. A crucial tool in the arsenal of the experimental particle physicist is the ...

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