It's a paper that's been more than four decades in the making. Published in Physical Review Accelerators and Beams, a study ...

Astrophysicists have detected the most energetic electrons ever recorded raining down on Earth. With trillions of times the ...

That’s because, as far as we know, electrons are fundamental particles. In other words, they have no smaller components. That ...

Physicists have long wondered why particles can only have an electric charge of +1, -2 or any whole number. Now we ...

Nuclear theorists uncover the mass distribution within the pion and the proton through groundbreaking first-principle ...

Boston College Assistant Professor of Physics Fazel Tafti found in the metal superconductor, a synthesis of Niobium and Germanium (NbGe2), that a strong interaction between electrons and phonons ...

Hydrogen is increasingly seen as an important element in the transition to a low-carbon future. Now, researchers have ...

Particle accelerator scientists have made the measurements, crunched the numbers and consolidated the data on the performance ...

A research team at European XFEL and DESY has achieved a major advance in X-ray science by generating unprecedented ...

Some hypothetical component particles have been proposed for electrons, but the physics they rely on doesn ... the fundamental nature of the electron is not one of the aspects that attracts ...

One of the most significant events in the International Year of Quantum of Science and Technology is a workshop being held in June 2025 in Helgoland – the island where Werner Heisenberg laid the ...