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

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 ...

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 LHCb experiment at CERN has revealed a fundamental asymmetry in the behavior of particles called baryons. “The reason why it took longer to observe CP violation in baryons than in mesons is down ...

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 ...

“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 ...

The Higher School of Economics has joined the LHCb collaboration at the Large Hadron Collider, which is operated by the European Organization for Nuclear Research. The group from HSE will consist of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...