In 1919 Rutherford had discovered the proton, a positively charged particle ... be a particle with mass but no charge. He called it a neutron, and imagined it as a paired proton and electron.

Scientists at CERN's ALICE detector are replicating conditions found during the Big Bang, attempting to get to the bottom of ...

scientists discovered that some atomic nuclei – the center part of atoms, which make up all matter – were more stable than ...

For the first time, scientists have successfully observed top quarks, ultrafast and unstable fundamental particles created in ...

Electrons, those fundamental particles that orbit atomic nuclei, are central to electromagnetism and chemical processes. Ever ...

To address these problems, the CLAS12 collaboration utilized the Central Neutron Detector, which was developed at France’s ...

A schematic diagram of proton and neutron distributions for mirror nuclei argon-31 and aluminum-31. Left side is the weakly bound proton-rich nucleus argon-31, which is predicted to exhibit a ...

Heavy ion collisions at the Large Hadron Collider generate conditions conducive to the formation of hypernuclei and their ...

scientists discovered that some atomic nuclei—the center part of atoms, which make up all matter—were more stable than others. These nuclei had specific numbers of protons or neutrons ...

The atomic nucleus is a quantum many-body system composed of protons and neutrons, typically exhibiting a size similar to that of neighboring nuclei. A halo is an exotic nuclear structure found in ...