The LHC facility at CERN is famous for the discovery of the Higgs boson, dubbed the ‘God particle’.

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Physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory and Stony Brook University (SBU) have shown that particles produced in collimated sprays called jets retain ...

Particle accelerators reveal the heart of nuclear matter by smashing together atoms at close to the speed of light. The high-energy collisions produce a shower of subatomic fragments that scientists ...

Welcome to this Physics World Particle & Nuclear Briefing bringing you the best of our recent coverage in these two areas. In this issue, we talk to Mark Thomson, who is set to take over running the ...

For decades, physicists searched for a missing piece of nature's puzzle, an elusive particle believed to explain why matter ...

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A philosopher has put forward an argument for rethinking how particles are defined within the standard model of particle ...

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Particle physics explores the fundamental constituents of matter and the forces by which they interact. Matter is built from quarks and leptons, while the strong, electromagnetic and weak interactions ...