The strong force or strong nuclear force is one of the four fundamental forces of nature, along with gravity, electromagnetism and the weak force. As the name suggests, the strong force is the ...

Binding together quarks into protons, neutrons and atomic nuclei is a force so strong, it's in the name. The strong force, which is carried by gluon particles, is the strongest of all fundamental ...

A proton isn't just three quarks and gluons, but a sea of dense particles and antiparticles inside. The more precisely we look at a proton and the greater the energies that we perform deep inelastic ...

The Strong Nuclear Force is responsible for holding protons and neutrons together within the nucleus of atoms. This force is different from the Strong Force, which binds quarks within individual ...

Of the four fundamental forces of nature, the one you likely know best is gravity. It and the electromagnetic force operate all around us and across vast space, on scales we humans can (sort of) ...

For more than half a century, particle physicists have theorized the existence of a “glueball,” a particle made entirely of gluons. While the past few decades have produced some compelling candidates, ...

Much ado was made about the Higgs boson when this elusive particle was discovered in 2012. Though it was touted as giving ordinary matter mass, interactions with the Higgs field only generate about 1 ...

New research could tell us about particle interactions in the early universe and even hint at new physics. Much of the matter in the universe is made up of tiny particles called quarks. Normally it’s ...

We dive into the weird world of quantum chromodynamics and the strong force. Quantum mechanics gets weirder as you go to smaller sizes and higher energies. It’s strange enough for atoms, but ...