Alpha decay represents a fundamental mode of radioactive disintegration wherein an unstable nucleus emits an alpha particle—a tightly bound cluster of two protons and two neutrons. This process not ...

The 2025 Nobel prize in Physics has been awarded to three scientists for the discovery of an effect that has applications in medical devices and quantum computing. John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John ...

It’s the rarest particle decay ever discovered. Scientists have clinched the case for a special type of decay of subatomic particles called kaons. Further study of the rare decay could reveal a ...

The scientists who discovered the Higgs boson, the so-called God Particle, have set their sights on even bigger prey – dark matter. The Atlas and CMS teams at Europe’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are ...

"If you think about it, that's very weird," Jenkins said. "If an atom is going to decay, why doesn't it lose protons or neutrons one at a time? The reason is that the alpha particle is very very ...

Red lines show the disintegration of a B-sub-s into two muons in the CMS camera at the Large Hadron Collider. Yello, green and blue are used to denote particles other than muons. Purdue University ...

Andrea Richard receives funding from the Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration.

The LHCb collaboration reported the observation of the hyperon Σ+→pμ+μ- rare decay at the XV International Conference on Beauty, Charm, Hyperons in Hadronic Interactions (BEACH 2024) in Charleston, ...

The Standard Model in physics seems to have split personalities. It's very obviously incomplete since it has no mechanism to give neutrinos mass, and it has no particles that correspond to dark matter ...

Once in a very great while, an ephemeral particle called a kaon arises and then quickly decays away into three other obscure entities. Whether or not this happens in a particular way has very little ...

Hairs on the toes of Mexican free-tailed bats light up under ultraviolet light, but the reason is unknown, Jason Bittel reported in “Mexican free-tailed bats’ toes glow in the dark” (SN: 8/28/24).