What scientists call the "nuclear weak distribution" describes the distribution of "active" protons in a nucleus. These are protons that are eligible to transition into neutrons through what ...

A philosopher has put forward an argument for rethinking how particles are defined within the standard model of particle ...

An experimental technique that started life in nuclear and particle physics is now being used to measure chemical reactions inside the human body and to help diagnose cancer and heart disease in ...

CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, shut down the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s most powerful ...

Welcome to this Physics World Particle & Nuclear Briefing bringing you the best of our recent coverage in these two areas. In this issue, we talk to Mark Thomson, who is set to take over running the ...

The LHC facility at CERN is famous for the discovery of the Higgs boson, dubbed the ‘God particle’.

Sean Preins, a doctoral student in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of California, Riverside, has created a VR application called VIRTUE, for "Virtual Interactive Reality ...

The ability to study extreme processes such as TGFs originating in lightning allows us to better understand the high-energy ...

The Higgs boson (blue) may be created by the interaction of gluons (yellow) during proton collisions. Protons consist of two up quarks (red) and one down quark (purple), bound by gluons so strongly ...

For decades, physicists searched for a missing piece of nature's puzzle, an elusive particle believed to explain why matter ...