In physics, there are two great pillars of thought that don't quite fit together. The Standard Model of particle physics ...

The collisions will happen under enough heat and pressure to melt protons and neutrons and release their components (quarks ...

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The ATLAS and ALICE collaborations have announced the first results of a new way to measure the “radial flow” of quark–gluon ...

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The world’s most powerful particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, is entering exciting new territory. For the first time ever, the LHC is smashing together protons and oxygen ...

An unforeseen feature in proton-proton collisions previously observed by the CMS experiment at CERN's Large Hadron Collider ...