A special particle trap designed to fit in a truck let researchers haul 70 protons across the CERN campus. Antiprotons may be next.

Antimatter might sound like something out of science fiction, but at the CERN Antiproton Decelerator (AD), scientists produce ...

These experiments rely on the controlled collision of high-energy protons with specialized targets to generate neutrinos.

The “lead” of a pencil is actually made of a substance called graphite which is made of carbon atoms. The picture shows a close-up of one carbon atom. A hydrogen atom has one proton as the nucleus and ...

Researchers have long been hunting for a way to make the elusive elements more stable so they can be better studied.

As a result, antimatter usually has a fleeting existence, meaning it's hard to make and even harder to study. CERN's ...

But fusing a titanium beam with plutonium to create livermorium is just a test run for much bigger (or rather, heavier) ...

These nuclei had specific numbers of protons or neutrons, or magic numbers, as physicist Eugene Wigner called them. The race ...

In 1996 we were ready to synthesize element 112. We selected a beam and a target material so that the sum of their protons gave 112: a zinc beam consisting of 30 protons and 40 neutrons was used ...

Hybrid model A new description of nuclei combines the quark–gluon model of particle physics with the proton–neutron ...