Neutrinos are low-mass subatomic particles with zero electric charge that interact with matter only via the weak nuclear force and gravity. This makes neutrinos difficult to detect, despite the fact ...

A decade-long investigation into puzzling neutrino behavior has now ruled out one of the most widely discussed explanations: ...

Scientists hunted dark matter and solar neutrinos with one of the largest experiments yet. While the neutrinos likely ...

Although its existence had been theorized for decades, the Higgs boson was finally observed to exist in 2012 at the Large ...

How the world of the smallest particles is structured, what is known about fundamental forces, and what particles have to do ...

Sebastian Mizera just joined the physics department as an assistant professor, researching quantum field theory.

After collecting and analyzing data for a decade, a group of scientists, including a team from Rutgers, have debunked a ...

Rutgers researchers help close the door on a decades-old physics mysteryAfter collecting and analyzing data for a decade, a ...

In the early 20th century, the development of quantum mechanics fundamentally changed our understanding of atomic and subatomic processes. This revolutionary theory, which emerged from the work of ...

The particles that are in an atom: protons, neutrons and electrons The particles that are in protons and neutrons: quarks The four fundamental forces: gravity, electromagnetism, the strong force and ...

The standard model of particle physics represents the most comprehensive theory about fundamental or subatomic particles and forces in the universe. The model describes how matter and antimatter ...