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A big part of physics is understanding collisions and how they're not all the same. COLLISIONS! A big part of physics is understanding collisions and how they're not all the same. Mass, momentum, and ...

For the first time, by studying quantum correlations between triplets of secondary particles created during high-energy ...

Laser cooling and trapping allow physicists to map the dynamics of every ion-atom encounter in a collision experiment. For many years atomic-collision experiments basically involved measuring the ...

Photon smashers: Shuai Yang (right) and Rice University colleague Wei Li are members of the CMS collaboration. (Courtesy: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University) A new way of studying matter that is created when ...

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Mathematicians and physicists have noticed a strange coincidence occurring between their respective fields: the values computed from particle physics experiments seem to correspond with a specific set ...