Researchers at CERN may be on the verge of explaining the universe’s missing gamma rays and hidden magnetic fields.

The astonishing result, achieved by the CMS (Compact Muon Solenoid) collaboration, represents the first-ever observation of ...

Protons might be stretchier than they should be. The subatomic particles are built of smaller particles called quarks, which are bound together by a powerful interaction known as the strong force. New ...

Physics at the smallest scales is a challenge of observation: Particles are often fleeting, and the forces that govern their behavior are nearly imperceptible. But now, by exploiting decades-old data ...

An international team of scientists, led by the University of Oxford, has achieved a world-first by creating plasma ...

For almost a decade, physicists have been baffled by the so-called proton radium puzzle: using different methods of measurement, they obtained two numbers that are slightly yet significantly different ...

WASHINGTON, D.C., July 20, 2009 -- Proton therapy -- which uses beams of the subatomic particles to treat cancer -- is a hot topic at this year's American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) ...

(Left to right): Jan Eulitz, Benjamin Lutz and Armin Lühr are developing a Monte Carlo-based radiation response modelling framework. (Courtesy: Armin Lühr) With more and more proton therapy centres ...

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Schematic of the SIRMIO proton CT system. For improved visibility, the spacing of the components is exaggerated. (Courtesy: Phys. Med. Biol. 10.1088/1361-6560/ab8afc) Small-animal irradiation studies ...

The experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) detect rare events on a daily basis, but some are exceptionally rare, such as this latest result from the CMS collaboration. For the first time, the ...