subatomic particle
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Physicists Just Learned Something Major About the Proton
Physics at the smallest scales is a challenge of observation: Particles are often fleeting, and the forces that govern their behaviour are nearly imperceptible. But now, by exploiting decades-old data and a 50-year-old prediction about gravity’s import on subatomic particles, a team of physicists has teased out a measurement for a second mechanical property in…
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Physicists Spotted a Rare ‘X’ Particle From the Beginning of the Universe
Researchers at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland recently detected a vanishingly rare particle they believe was around at the very beginning of the universe. The particle — called an X particle for now, because no one knows exactly what it is — was produced by colliding billions of heavy ions inside the famous particle accelerator.
