There is no measurement that can directly observe the wave function of a quantum mechanical system, but the wave function is still enormously useful as its (complex) square represents the probability ...
A novel apparatus at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory has made extremely precise ...
Scientists have now mapped the forces acting inside a proton, showing in unprecedented detail how quarks -- the tiny particles within -- respond when hit by high-energy photons. The international team ...
New simulations performed on a NASA supercomputer are providing scientists with the most comprehensive look yet into the ...
Using the world's most powerful particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider, scientists have found that the quark-gluon ...
Physics is the search for and application of rules that can help us understand and predict the world around us. Central to physics are ideas such as energy, mass, particles and waves. Physics attempts ...
Researchers from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) and the University of Oklahoma have pinpointed a one-dimensional system where such particles can exist and have examined their ...