Subatomic: An Atom Building Game (Adapted for use in the science classroom) OVERVIEW This lesson utilizes an adaptation of the board game Subatomic: An Atom Building Game to help students learn about ...

The peculiar wobble of a subatomic particle called a muon in a U.S. laboratory experiment is making scientists increasingly suspect they are missing something in their understanding of physics ...

Particle physics describes the universe at the smallest scale. This includes subatomic particles, like protons and neutrons, as well as elementary particles, like quarks and electrons, which make ...

Now, archeologists are joining forces with physicists, trading their pickaxes for subatomic particle detectors about the size of a household microwave. Thanks to breakthrough technology, particle ...

This is despite the fact that subatomic charm quarks are about 1.5 times more massive than the proton, itself. When charm quarks are present, they carry about half of the proton’s mass.

The Standard Model reached its modern form in the 1970's, once a few key elements were in place: a quantum theory to explain the strong force, the realization that the electromagnetic and weak ...

The particle has two heavy quarks -- both of a type that are called "charm" -- and a light one. In the natural world, baryons have at most one heavy quark.

While inconclusive at the time, the experiment and its results have tantalized physicists ever since. Muon g-2 particle storage ring in the MC-1 Building. [Photo: Cindy Arnold/Fermilab] ...

The “particle celebre” is the muon, like an electron but far heavier, and “is an integral element of the cosmos” reports The New York Times. Scientists have observed the particle behaving ...

This is despite the fact that subatomic charm quarks are about 1.5 times more massive than the proton, itself. When charm quarks are present, they carry about half of the proton’s mass.

What the physicists in Japan had created was a kind of Frankensodium, an 11-proton particle with a whopping 28 neutrons stuffed into its nucleus. This sodium-39 was the most massive isotope of ...

If the results are confirmed, the so-called X17 particle could help to explain dark matter, the mysterious substance scientists believe accounts for more than 80 percent of the mass in the universe.