Physicists have struggled for seven decades with the question of why there is more matter in the universe than antimatter.

In late 2023, Wojciech Brylinski was analyzing data from the NA61/SHINE collaboration at CERN for his thesis when he noticed an unexpected anomaly—a strikingly large imbalance between charged and ...

For the first time, quarks and gluons were used to describe properties of atomic nuclei, which until now had been explained by the existence of protons and neutrons. The temporary pair of correlated ...

Fedor Popov is a Junior Fellow with the Simons Society of Fellows. In his series Foundation, science fiction author Isaac Asimov put forth a provocative idea that, while we can never predict the ...

Leaving the Y behind: When a proton collides with another particle (left), its three valence quarks (labelled u, u, d) will continue to fly down the beampipe, but its Y-shaped configuration of gluons ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...