ALICE collaboration identifies three-phase process that allows particles to form despite energetically unfavourable ...

Inside each proton or neutron there are three quarks bound by gluons. Until now, it has often been assumed that two of them form a "stable" pair known as a diquark. It seems, however, that it's the ...

Inside the most powerful particle colliders on Earth, protons slam together at nearly the speed of light, shredding matter ...

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has begun its first-ever collisions of oxygen ions, in the latest attempt to understand the early universe. The LHC is largely famous for its proton-proton collisions, ...

The ALICE collaboration has performed one of the most precise studies of strange-to-non-strange hadron production to date at ...

Central Exclusive Production (CEP) in proton‑proton collisions is a distinctive process whereby a new state is produced centrally, leaving both protons largely intact and separated by rapidity gaps ...

Collisions of lead nuclei take place under extreme physical conditions. Their course can be described using a model which assumes that the transforming, extremely hot matter—the quark-gluon ...

Collisions of lead nuclei take place under extreme physical conditions. Their course can be described using a model which assumes that the transforming, extremely hot matter - the quark-gluon plasma - ...

Inside high-energy proton collisions, quarks and gluons briefly form a dense, boiling state before cooling into ordinary ...

The hunt for new physics is back on. The world’s most powerful machine for smashing high-energy particles together, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), has fired up after a shutdown of more than three ...

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