image: Peter Hurck has been searching for strange particles, named such because they contain strange quarks, since beginning work on his Ph.D. As the 2023 Jefferson Science Associates (JSA) ...

Within quark-gluon plasma, strange quarks are readily produced through collisions between gluons. Physicists believe that in the Universe's first ten microseconds free quarks and gluons filled all of ...

A few billionths of a second after the Big Bang—currently the most widely accepted theory of how the universe was formed—elementary particles, including protons and neutrons, did not exist. Instead, ...

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American physicist Murray Gell-Mann, credited with laying the foundation of particle physics by proving the existence of the elementary particle 'quark,' passed away on the 24th (local time). He was ...

The 15-year-old Yale freshman wanted to study archaeology, but his father thought engineering was a more promising profession. “I couldn’t stand engineering,” recalls Caltech’s Professor Murray ...

Physicists believe that in the Universe's first ten microseconds free quarks and gluons filled all of spacetime, forming a new phase of matter named 'quark-gluon plasma' (QGP). Experimental and ...