Scientists at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) have found new evidence that collisions of small nuclei with large ones can create tiny specks of quark-gluon plasma (QGP), a state of matter ...

A pair of top quarks has been detected in the detritus spraying forth from the collision of two atoms of lead. This means that we're a step closer to taking new measurements of this primordial soup, ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...

Quark coalescer: the LHCb experiment being upgraded several years ago. (Courtesy: Maximilien Brice/CERN) Physicists working on the LHCb experiment have seen evidence that “quark coalescence” plays a ...

Physicists report new evidence that production of an exotic state of matter in collisions of gold nuclei at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) can be 'turned off' by lowering the collision ...

This has been a ludicrously exciting week. Monday and Tuesday I did my first shifts in the ATLAS control room, taking more and more data from lead-lead collisions in the LHC. In the quiet moments I ...

Physicists can create an exotic state of matter known as a quark-gluon plasma (QGP) by colliding gold nuclei together. By systematically varying the amount of energy involved in the collision, ...

In the universe of high-energy physics, the smallest building blocks of matter (or anti-matter) make the biggest news. Take subatomic particles, for instance. Colliding into each other at nearly the ...