No pairs: the first ‘open flavour’ tetraquark has been spotted at CERN (Courtesy: Shutterstock/paul_june) The first tetraquark composed of four quarks of ...

Event display of a typical Bs0 decay into two muons. The two muon tracks from the Bs0 decay are seen as a pair of green tracks traversing the whole detector. Image: LHCb collaboration The Standard ...

“The pentaquark is not just any new particle,” said LHCb spokesperson Guy Wilkinson. “It represents a way to aggregate quarks, namely the fundamental constituents of ordinary protons and neutrons, in ...

Why does the universe we live in exist? After all, our current understanding of the Big Bang — the phenomenon that gave rise to the universe roughly 13.8 billion years ago — tells us that equal ...

What happened at the beginning of the universe, in the very first moments? The truth is, we don’t really know because it takes huge amounts of energy and precision to recreate and understand the ...

CERN scientists may have just found evidence of a new force of nature that violates our best understanding of particle physics - the Standard Model. Experts have, however, cautioned a lot more work ...

Dark matter appears to dictate the gravitational effects of rotating galaxies and holds a majority stake in the universe at large. Physicists estimate up to 85 percent of the cosmos is built from the ...

An illustration of one possible layout of quarks in a pentaquark particle such as those seen at LHCb (showing five tightly-bonded quarks) Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider have announced the ...

Particle physicists at CERN have measured charge-parity (CP) violation in the D 0 meson for the first time. Announcing the finding today during the annual Rencontres de Moriond conference held in La ...

Researchers at CERN are reporting the first observation of matter-antimatter asymmetry in the decays of the particle known as the B0s. It is only the fourth subatomic particle known to exhibit such ...

Physicists are part of a team that has announced 'intriguing' results that potentially cannot be explained by our current laws of nature. Imperial physicists are part of a team that has announced ...