A recent Physical Review Letters study presents a new model for quark star merger ejecta that could resolve whether these cosmic collisions generate ordinary matter or something different.

Members of the STAR collaboration, a group of physicists collecting and analyzing data from particle collisions at the ...

The top quark’s extreme mass makes it decay almost immediately after it is produced. “The top and antitop quarks just have ...

The key test passed by sPHENIX to prove it is ready to measure the properties of quark-gluon plasma is called a "standard candle" in particle physics. This isn't to be confused with Type 1a supernovas ...

A researcher, Heikki Mäntysaari from the University of Jyväskylä (Finland), has been part of an international research group ...

IIT Guwahati has officially released the GATE 2026 syllabus and exam pattern for all subjects on its website. About 85% of ...

Probing ever deeper into the inner world of the atom, nuclear physicists have uncovered an increasingly baffling collection of tiny particles. Besides the familiar neutrons, electrons and protons, ...

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Hundreds of physicists from around the world will convene to present new research at the 2025 Fall Meeting of the American Physical Society’s Division of Nuclear Physics. The conference will be held ...

Dark matter has bewildered scientists for centuries. It makes up most of the universe’s matter, but it can’t be seen directly ...

In a recent paper for the Journal of High Energy Physics, researchers with the sPHENIX Collaboration announced that it had passed a “standard candle” test with flying colors, correctly catching and ...