Neutron stars are so named because in the simplest of models they are made of neutrons. They form when the core of a large ...

To address these problems, the CLAS12 collaboration utilized the Central Neutron Detector, which was developed at France’s ...

Requiring consistency between the physics of neutron stars and quark matter leads to the first astrophysical constraint on ...

An experiment more than 10 years in the making has delivered its first glimpse of the hurricane of particles whirring inside ...

Decoding the science of quark mixing. Quarks are of six types; up, down, charm, strange, top, and bottom. The first two (up ...

An atom's cloud of electrons makes it difficult to determine an exact boundary for "touching," Baird said. Instead, it is ...

Wherever two quarks of a flavor called 'up' are bound to a flavor called 'down', you'll find a proton. Make it two down quarks and a single up, you'll have yourself a neutron. Describing quark trios ...

T he atomic nucleus is made up of protons and neutrons, particles that exist through the interaction of quarks bonded by ...

A proton has two up quarks and one down quark; a neutron has two down quarks and one up quark. GPDs can be split up by quark flavor. Combining measurements of DVCS on the neutron with previous ...

Researchers seek to answer questions such as how the universe evolved just after the Big Bang from a super-hot plasma of quarks and gluons, how the different elements of the universe were formed, and ...

Using the Large Hadron Collider and the ALICE detector scientists have found the heavist antimatter particle yet, generated ...

A new way to detect neutrons Nucleons are made up of smaller particles called quarks and gluons. Physicists don’t yet fully understand how these constituent particles are distributed inside ...