Protons might be stretchier than they should be. The subatomic particles are built of smaller particles called quarks, which are bound together by a powerful interaction known as the strong force. New ...

For the first time, by studying quantum correlations between triplets of secondary particles created during high-energy collisions in the LHC accelerator, it has been possible to observe their ...

Physics at the smallest scales is a challenge of observation: Particles are often fleeting, and the forces that govern their behavior are nearly imperceptible. But now, by exploiting decades-old data ...

For almost a decade, physicists have been baffled by the so-called proton radium puzzle: using different methods of measurement, they obtained two numbers that are slightly yet significantly different ...

For the first time, a research team from the University of Cologne has observed the electron capture decay of technetium-98, ...

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CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — An international team of nuclear physicists has determined that particles called strange quarks do, indeed, contribute to the ordinary properties of the proton. Quarks are subatomic ...

WASHINGTON, D.C., July 20, 2009 -- Proton therapy -- which uses beams of the subatomic particles to treat cancer -- is a hot topic at this year's American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) ...

MR images acquired using GE (top row) and IRGE (bottom row) sequences during proton irradiation, with expected proton ranges of (left to right) 4.2, 6.4, 8.6 and 12.2 cm at 9 nA. (Courtesy: S ...

(Left to right): Jan Eulitz, Benjamin Lutz and Armin Lühr are developing a Monte Carlo-based radiation response modelling framework. (Courtesy: Armin Lühr) With more and more proton therapy centres ...

How big is a proton? This doesn’t sound like a very complicated question, but it’s one that turned out to have the potential to wreck a lot of modern physics. That’s because different methods of ...