Particle accelerators reveal the heart of nuclear matter by smashing together atoms at close to the speed of light. The ...

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The magnetic moment of the muon—a tiny property of a tiny particle—has long puzzled physicists. Experiments and theory haven’t quite matched up, leaving open the thrilling possibility of discovering ...

An innovative algorithm for detecting collisions of high-speed particles within nuclear fusion reactors has been developed, inspired by technologies used to determine whether bullets hit targets in ...

The particles that are in an atom: protons, neutrons and electrons The particles that are in protons and neutrons: quarks The four fundamental forces: gravity, electromagnetism, the strong force and ...

When light scatters off light, a photon can briefly turn into a pair of particles, such as an electron and a positron. These interact and annihilate, turning back into a photon. But if heavier virtual ...