In physical sciences, subatomic particles can be composite particles, such as the neutron and proton, or elementary particles. Based on the standard model, elementary particles are not made of other ...

In a study published in Physical Review D scientists calculated the trace anomaly for both nucleons (protons or neutrons) and ...

Nuclear theorists uncover the mass distribution within the pion and the proton through groundbreaking first-principle ...

The first subatomic particle to be identified was the electron ... discovered that atoms have a very dense nucleus that contains protons. In 1932, another British physicist, James Chadwick ...

It does this by generating beams of protons - the positively ... along the 17-mile-long ring. A particle detector is waiting at each point to measure all the subatomic particles that erupt from ...

As such, observing the phenomenon in action provides a unique opportunity for testing our current understanding of the ...

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

Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory are trying to address the immense challenge of building targets for particle detectors that can withstand the ...