Hints of unexpected behaviour by a sub-atomic particle called the beauty quark could expose cracks in the foundations of this decades-old theory. The findings emerged from data collected by ...

With this tool, scientists smash together subatomic particles to help ... intermediary particle may be the rho meson, a particle made of a quark and antiquark held together by gluons.

As part of an experiment called NA62, researchers detected and measured an ultra-rare form of decay for a subatomic particle ...

The Standard Model of particle physics takes this motto to heart: it contains three so-called generations of elementary particles. Take the quarks as an example. In addition to the pair of quark ...

There are, however, six different types of quarks which combine in different ways to form other kinds of particle. Those that have been detected so far contain at most, one heavy quark.

The first subatomic particle to be identified was the electron ... This changed in 1963 when American physicist Murray Gell-Mann proposed his quark theory. Gell-Mann believed that each proton ...

Tiny subatomic particles called muons aren ... Another hypothesised particle called ‘beauty quark’ was put forth by scientists at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland just last month.

The neutron (charge = 0) is made up of one up quark ... other subatomic particles comes from the ‘debris’ moments after collisions between electrons, neutrons and protons in particle accelerators.