Far lighter than other ions collided at the LHC, oxygen (and neon) could tell us about conditions in the early universe.

Experts believe the universe may have a built-in 'self-destruct button' called false vacuum decay which could destroy the ...

Under the right conditions, this collapse doesn’t end in a singularity — instead, it bounces and begins expanding again,” said University of Portsmouth professor Enrique Gaztañaga in a statement that ...

On June 11, the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine announced the result of a three-year study to set a ...

The Higgs boson, discovered in 2012 thanks to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), is at the heart of the Standard Model of particle physics because it explains why particles have mass. So far, scientists ...

The Higgs boson, discovered at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in 2012, plays a central role in the Standard Model of particle physics, endowing elementary particles such as quarks with mass ...

Top quarks decay into a W boson and a bottom quark. The W boson is the mediator of the weak nuclear force and it decays into an electron or a muon and its corresponding neutrino.

Pairs of top and anti-top quarks created in the aftermath of a proton collision live infinitesimally short lives — lasting 10 −25 seconds. Then they decay into longer-lived particles.

It also interacted with an entire class of particles known as leptons, which include electrons and quarks – the building blocks of matter. Specifically, the interaction with the Higgs boson is ...

The Higgs boson (blue) may be created by the interaction of gluons (yellow) during proton collisions. Protons consist of two up quarks (red) and one down quark (purple), bound by gluons so ...

Discovered in 1995, the top quark is the most massive elementary particle that exists, outweighing even the Higgs boson. Because of its atypical size as compared to other quarks, scientists were ...