In the world of nuclear physics, protons often take the spotlight. But now, for the first time, the neutron has stepped into ...

Soon afterwards, the existence of quarks was confirmed experimentally ... Denniston et al, Modification of Quark-Gluon Distributions in Nuclei by Correlated Nucleon Pairs, Physical Review Letters ...

called quarks and gluons. These are collectively known as partons. But how these partons are arranged inside the nucleon, and how they add up to produce the nucleon’s spin, remains unclear.

Collisions between lead ions at the LHC generate the hottest and densest system ever created in the laboratory. Under these extreme conditions, quarks and gluons are no longer confined inside hadrons ...

Quarks and gluons inside protons exhibit maximal quantum entanglement at high energies, influencing hadronization, the process by which they form detectable particles.

A pair of top quarks has been detected in the detritus spraying forth from the collision of two atoms of lead. This means that we're a step closer to taking new measurements of this primordial soup, ...

This book describes baryon models constructed from quarks, mesons and chiral symmetry ... As an application, the chiral bag model is studied for nucleon structure, where important methods of ...

ATLAS has now confirmed that top quarks are produced in the lead-nucleus collisions, together with their antiparticles. The top quark’s fleeting interactions with the quark–gluon plasma could ...

The book “Leptons and Quarks” was first published in the early 1980s, when the program of the experimental search for the intermediate bosons W and Z and Higgs boson H was formulated. The aim and ...

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Second, these results could mean that strong interactions do not obey flavour symmetry. If this is true, it would contradict physicists’ current understanding of quantum chromodynamics (QCD), that is, ...