The charm quark is a heavier cousin of the up and down quarks that make up much of the matter around us. The charm quark is one of six quarks that, along with leptons, form the basic building blocks ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

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Scientists have used CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) to uncover what they say is an entirely new type of particle, dubbed ...

The first tetraquark comprising all charm quarks and antiquarks may have been spotted by physicists working on the LHCb experiment on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. The exotic hadron was ...

Physicists working on the LHCb experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider have discovered a new subatomic particle called the ...

A team of researchers with The NNPDF Collaboration has found new evidence to support the theory of "intrinsic" charm quarks. In their paper published in the journal Nature, the group describes how ...

Researchers at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have discovered a new particle, the Ξ cc ⁺, (“Xi cc plus”), a heavier cousin ...

Ramona Vogt is at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA, and in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Davis, Davis, California, USA. At ...

The strong interaction is one of the fundamental forces of nature, which binds quarks into hadrons such as the proton and the neutron, the building blocks of atoms. According to the quark model, ...

Today at the EPS Conference on High Energy Physics in Venice, the LHCb experiment at CERN's Large Hadron Collider has reported the observation of Ξcc++ (Xicc++) a new particle containing two charm ...