Amid the chaotic chains of events that ensue when protons smash together at the Large Hadron Collider in Europe, one particle has popped up that appears to go to pieces in a peculiar way. All eyes are ...

Physicists at the Belle experiment at the KEK laboratory in Japan have discovered a new particle that provides the best evidence yet that some mesons contain four quarks rather than the usual two.

Molecular pentaquark Artist’s impression of how five quarks could bind together to form an exotic hadron. Such particles have been spotted at CERN, Fermilab and SLAC. (Image: Daniel Dominguez/CERN) ...

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The LHCb experiment has an established record studying these matter-antimatter "flips" Researchers at the Large Hadron Collider have witnessed particles called D-mesons flipping from matter into ...

Researchers at the Large Hadron Collider have witnessed particles called D-mesons flipping from matter into antimatter and back. Antimatter is just like normal matter, but with opposite electric ...