Weak bosons are elementary particles that mediate weak interactions in particle physics. Weak bosons were predicted to exist theoretically in 1968, and their existence was confirmed in 1983 by the ...

It’s often said in science that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Recent measurements of the mass of the elementary particle known as the W boson provide a useful case study as to ...

Without elementary particles, there'd be no X-Ray machines, no Internet and no electricity. Because some elementary particles penetrate matter without destroying it, they're a boon for scientific and ...

A recent study published in Nature combines data from two major experiments - NOvA in the United States and T2K in Japan - to observe with unprecedented precision how neutrinos, particles capable ...

The standard model of particle physics is often illustrated as a simple grid showing the 17 basic particles (shown above). But an alternative way of visualising it reveals the complex rules that ...

A once-promising hint of new physics from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s largest particle accelerator, has melted away, quashing one of physicists’ best hopes for a major discovery. The ...

Superstring theory is not entirely beyond the reach of observation. It predicts a large negative cosmological constant and astronomers are pretty certain that the value is small positive. That's one ...

Scientists from around the world are at Brown to discuss what is known, and what needs to be learned, about the long-sought particle discovered a decade ago.

Scientists from the European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN) have announced the possible detection of the signal of the smallest elementary particle — toponium at the Large Hadron Collider. The ...

On July 4, 2012, researchers at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Switzerland announced with great fanfare that they had ...