The LHCb collaboration at CERN has confirmed the observation of an ultra-rare particle decay that has puzzled physicists for roughly two decades. The decay, in which a sigma-plus hyperon transforms ...

A team of researchers at the University of Chicago recently embarked on the search of a lifetime—or rather, a search for the lifetime of long-lived supersymmetric particles. Supersymmetry is a ...

A new particle has popped into existence at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, a heavier proton-like particle that contains two charm quarks. Protons and neutrons are examples of a class of particles ...