A new type of ‘exotic particle’ that is made up of four-quarks – also known as a tetraquark – has been discovered by scientists using Large Hadron Collider data. A team from the University of Manchester said the discovery involved sifting through datasets from the first and second collider runs – between 2009 and 2018. … Read more
A new particle accelerator four times bigger than the Large Hadron Collider is a step closer after CERN agreed to back the £19 billion (€21bn) project. The Future Circle Collider (FCC) will have a 62 mile (100km) circumference and be six times more powerful than the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The next-generation particle-smashing machine will … Read more
A new particle accelerator four times larger than the Large Hadron Collider is about to move a step closer, as CERN is poised to support the €20 billion (£18bn) project. The Future Circle Collider (FCC) will have a 62 mile (100km) circumference and be six times more powerful than the LHC. The FCC will allow … Read more
NASA announces new mission to study solar particle storms, with six small satellites the size of toaster ovens that will orbit Earth and measure radiation from the sun NASA has announced a new project to study dangerous solar particle storms The project will launch no earlier than July 1, 2023 at a cost of $62.6 … Read more
Particle that may date back to the Big Bang could hold the key to understanding the dark matter that makes up 80 per cent of the universe The sub-atomic particle is called a d-star hexaquark and was discovered in 2014 Dark matter is a mass that only interacts with regular matter through gravity It does … Read more