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Every time I write about particle physics, I encounter a moment of uncertainty about a quantity that, at first glance, ought to be clear. How many kinds of elementary particles should I say there are?

A collision inside the STAR detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider.Brookhaven National Laboratory Scientists at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider have observed particles emerging directly ...

Hawking radiation is slowly erasing black holes over unimaginable timescales. This video explains the physics behind virtual particles at the event horizon, the fate of primordial black holes, and the ...

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The dynamic fluctuations of energy fields in the quantum vacuum that are associated with the fleeting emergence of spin-aligned quark/antiquark pairs.Valerie A. Lentz/Brookhaven National Laboratory US ...

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have uncovered experimental evidence that particles of matter emerging from energetic subatomic smashups retain a key ...

A clever mathematical tool known as virtual particles unlocks the strange and mysterious inner workings of subatomic particles. What happens to these particles within atoms would stay unexplained ...

Usually, light waves can pass through each other without any resistance. According to the laws of electrodynamics, two light beams can exist in the same place without influencing each other; they ...