P hysicists might have found a glueball. This is not something you get by rubbing vinyl glue between your fingers. It is a curious interaction between the carriers of the strong nuclear force, called ...

In 1964 James Cronin and Val Fitch discovered that this symmetry is violated by the weak force at 1 part in 1,000 in mesons that had strange quarks. In 1973 Makoto Kobayashi and Toshikide Maskawa ...

Thanks to AI, the researchers were able to push the boundary of what can be achieved with the particle detector, an ...

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Once they thermalize with the plasma, charm quarks form D mesons and beauty quarks form B mesons, by combining with the medium's light quarks (see figure above). Previous measurements have shown ...

RECENT reports 1 from, the United States announce that E. Gardner and C. M. G. Lattes have observed that mesons are generated when α-particles of great energy are allowed to fall on matter.

It’s gearing up to be one of the busiest weeks of the year for El Meson with their week-long Cinco de Mayo celebration starting today.

It appeared that there were two different versions – one would decay into 2 pi mesons and the other would decay into 3 pi mesons. Pi mesons are also called pions. All other properties of the K ...

Two detector upgrades of ALICE, the dedicated heavy-ion physics experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), have recently ...

formed of three antiquarks); and mesons, which are quark-antiquark pairs. The proton and neutron, the only strong-force particles to have much of a permanent existence in our current world ...

As part of this most recent study, the CMS team specifically searched for pairs of J/Psi mesons. These particles are a powerful probe for all-heavy quark systems, as they can be clearly identified ...

The world's largest charm-threshold data set is also vital for studies with charm and beauty mesons at LHCb and Belle II.