Even as it's slated for retirement, Fermilab's Tevatron particle collider may be providing its successor, the Large Hadron Collider, with directions to some new physics. Recently, researchers with ...

For decades, physicists have searched in vain for exotic bound states comprising more than three quarks. Experiments have now shown that, in fact, such complex particles do exist in nature. The ...

Quarks and leptons interact via four forces to make the universe we know today. How these particles work to make matter. Six types of quarks have so far been experimentally confirmed, ...

Physicists love a particle accelerator, and we have since taken a good look at the six flavors of quarks (up, down, strange, charm, bottom, and top) and the eight different types of gluons. But ...

Bottom quarks. Bottom quarks are created during high-energy collisions between particles. The bottom quark is one of six quarks. Together with the top quark it is one of the heaviest quarks.

By 1977, physicists had isolated five of the six quarks in the lab — up, down, strange, charm and bottom — but it wasn't until 1995 that researchers at Fermilab National Accelerator Laboratory ...

Bottom quarks. Bottom quarks are created during high-energy collisions between particles. The bottom quark is one of six quarks. Together with the top quark it is one of the heaviest quarks.

Do top quarks, nature's heaviest elementary particle, obey Einstein's rules at all times of day and night? Scientists at the ...

Quarks are elementary particles that are the building blocks of all visible matter in the universe. Explore them in more detail here.

Each contains six quarks. (Courtesy: Bo Wang/Hebei University) Multiple hexaquarks – strongly interacting hadronic particles comprising six quarks – are likely to exist, according to a new theoretical ...

The charm quark is one of six quarks that, along with leptons, form the basic building blocks of ordinary matter. It is hundreds of times more massive than the up and down quarks that make up protons ...