A new proposal makes the case that paraparticles — a new category of quantum particle — could be created in exotic materials.

IFLScience traveled to CERN to get an exclusive insight into the crucial theory of particle physics, its limitations, and ...

As if atoms weren’t already mind-blowingly small, never mind subatomic particles, CERN researchers in the CMS Collaboration ...

Intriguing signs from CERN hint at a never-before-seen form of matter – one that could be the tiniest particle cluster ever ...

The axion quasiparticle forms when the interaction between the electric field and magnetization oscillates in a specific ...

Supersymmetry, a theory that posits every ... have seen it as the best hope for particle physics to solve long-standing mysteries such as dark matter. The skeptics have protested its privileged ...

The LHCb experiment at CERN has uncovered a fundamental asymmetry in the behavior of baryons. During the Moriond Conference in Italy, the LHCb collaboration at CERN announced that a new ...

It took more than 80,000 baryon decays for us to see matter–antimatter ... Model of particle physics are not yet precise enough to enable a thorough comparison between theory and the LHCb ...

The dynamical axion quasiparticle, which is directly analogous to the hypothetical fundamental axion particle ... cosmology and string theory. Disorder has emerged as a promising tool to ...

The discovery provides new ways to address why the elementary particles that make up matter fall into ... of the Standard Model of particle physics are not yet precise enough to enable a thorough ...

For 100 years, quantum theory has painted the subatomic world as strange beyond words. But bold new interpretations and ...