# Quarks

### Dark Matter and Energy Are Real Reveals Final Data of Planck Mission

The mission's last data reveal what its first findings had suspected. The notion of an almost perfect Universe is indeed correct.

Dark Matter

### Burton Richter, Nobel Prize-winning physicist, dies at 87

Burton Richter, an American physicist who shared the 1976 Nobel Prize for discovering a subatomic particle — the curiously named “charm quark” — that became a foundation stone of the modern understanding of matter at its deepest levels, has died. He was 87.<p>His death in Palo Alto on July 18 was …

Physics

### Single production of vectorlike quarks with large width at the Large Hadron Collider

Author(s): Alexandra Carvalho, Stefano Moretti, Dermot O’Brien, Luca Panizzi, and Hugo PragerVectorlike quarks (VLQs) are predicted by several …

Physics

### Burton Richter, Nobel Prize–winning physicist with influence in Washington, D.C., dies

Burton Richter, a Nobel Prize–winning particle physicist who also exercised significant influence in scientific policy, died on 18 July, the …

Physics

### $CP$ tests of Higgs couplings in $t\overline{t}h$ semileptonic events at the LHC

Author(s): D. Azevedo, A. Onofre, F. Filthaut, and R. GonçaloThe CP nature of the Higgs coupling to top quarks is addressed in this paper, in single …

Physics

### What Was It Like When The Universe First Created More Matter Than Antimatter?

13.8 billion years ago, at the moment of the Big Bang, the Universe was the hottest it’s ever been in history. Every single known particle exists in great abundance, along with equal amounts of their antiparticle counterparts, all smashing rapidly and repeatedly into everything around them. The …

Physics

### Operator relations for gravitational form factors of a spin-0 hadron

Author(s): Kazuhiro TanakaThe gravitational form factors for a hadron, the form factors for the hadron matrix element of the QCD energy-momentum …

Physics

### Best of Last Week – Century old physics riddle solved, world's oldest colors and eating fat is cause of weight gain

It was a good week for physics as a combined team from MIT and Harvard University asked whether gravitational waves could reveal how fast our …

Dark Matter

### Sophia video: ontology, materialism, and all that jazz

Home <b>›</b> Sophia Videos <b>›</b> <b>Sophia video: ontology, materialism, and all that jazz</b><p><i>on</i> July 17, 2018  ( 0 )<p>Dan Kaufman and I have done it again. We have …

Ontology

### ‘A Brief History Of Time’: Artist Challenge

<b>Event Horizon <br>“The event horizon, the boundary of the black hole, is like the edge of a shadow—the shadow of impending doom. If you look at the</b> …

Black Holes

### Enjoying our Universe [slideshow]

Albert Einstein holding the visible Universe, to whose current understanding he contributed so significantly. <i><br>Image credit: Albert Einstein by Alvaro</i> …

Albert Einstein

### Hadronic Vacuum Polarization Contribution to the Anomalous Magnetic Moments of Leptons from First Principles

Author(s): Sz. Borsanyi, Z. Fodor, C. Hoelbling, T. Kawanai, S. Krieg, L. Lellouch, R. Malak, K. Miura, K. K. Szabo, C. Torrero, and B. C. Toth …

Quantum Physics

### Researchers Find More Evidence for the Higgs Boson

July 4, 2012. Besides being the United States’ 236th birthday, it was the day that physicists announced that they had found strong evidence of the …

Physics

### Top quarks spin together more than they should, according to new ATLAS result

The top quark is a unique particle due to its phenomenally high mass. It decays in less than 10 to 24 seconds, before it has time to interact with …

Physics

### New particles found at collider | Nature

Research Highlights | Published: 18 February 2015<p>Particle physics: New particles found at collider<p><i>Nature</i> <b>volume 518</b>, page 277 (19 February 2015) | …

Physics

### Higgs boson observed decaying to b quarks

When all WH and ZH channels are combined and the backgrounds (apart from WZ and ZZ production) subtracted from the data, the distribution shown in …

Physics

### A Fresh Look at Quark-Gluon Plasma Soup

(Inside Science) -- Quarks and gluons are the building blocks for larger particles such as protons and neutrons, which in part make up atoms in all …

Physics

### Quarks observed to interact via minuscule 'weak lightsabers'

Two among the rarest processes probed so far at the Large Hadron Collider, the scattering between W and Z bosons emitted by quarks in proton-proton …

Physics

### Particle physicists at TU Dresden involved in the discovery of scattering of W and Z bosons

At the ATLAS experiment at CERN in Geneva, the group is conducting research on messenger particles of the so-called weak interaction. They have shown …

Physics

### Secrets of the Big Bang and dark matter

At the Japanese Research Center for Particle Physics KEK, the new particle accelerator experiment Belle II started operation after eight years of …

Physics

### Welcome To Science Diction

<i>This is a part of Science Diction, a series digging into the scientific origin stories behind our words and language. Find all our stories and</i> …

Science

### Rotor spectra and Berry phases in the chiral limit of QCD on a torus

Author(s): N. D. Vlasii and U.-J. WieseFinite volume spectra of mesons in sectors with baryon number zero and one and different isospin, computed in …

Physics

### How to think about… Particles

WHEN picturing particles, David Kaiser freely confesses to physically incorrect thoughts. “With great respect to my forebears, I personally still do …

Physics

### USTC contributes to LHC experiment discovery on Higgs Boson

New results from the ATLAS and CMS experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) revealed how strongly the Higgs boson interacts with the heaviest …

Physics

### When fluid flows almost as fast as light—with quantum rotation

Quark-gluon plasma is formed as a result of high-energy collisions of heavy ions. After a collision, for a dozen or so yoctoseconds (10-24 seconds), …

Physics

### QCD chiral phase transition from noninteger numbers of flavors

Author(s): Francesca Cuteri, Owe Philipsen, and Alessandro SciarraAttempts to extract the order of the chiral transition of QCD at zero chemical …

Asymmetry

### The Surprising Reason Why Neutron Stars Don’t All Collapse To Form Black Holes

There’s something very special inside a proton and neutron that holds the key.<p>There are few things in the Universe that are as easy to form, in …

Physics

### Scientists Propose New Form of Matter Forged in the Heart of Neutron Star

Artist's rendering of the universe's first, massive, blue stars in gaseous filaments (via N.R.Fuller/National Science Foundation)<p>Matter, in its most …

Physics

### Exclusive Premiere: Slam - Fine (Soma Records)

Artist: Various<br>Title: Soma Coma Vol. 7<br>Label: Soma Records<br>Release date: 22nd June 2018<br>Genre: Ambient / Downtempo<p>The Soma Coma Series returns with its …

Quarks

### A Strange Type of Matter Might Lie Inside Neutron Stars, And It Breaks The Periodic Table

This is amazing and we are freaking out.<p>A group of physicists are questioning our understanding of how quarks - a type of elementary particle - …

Physics