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

Protons might be stretchier than they should be. The subatomic particles are built of smaller particles called quarks, which are bound together by a powerful interaction known as the strong force. New ...

Physics at the smallest scales is a challenge of observation: Particles are often fleeting, and the forces that govern their behavior are nearly imperceptible. But now, by exploiting decades-old data ...

Irradiation with proton minibeams creates a highly heterogeneous dose distribution inside a rat’s head. (Courtesy: Sci. Reports 10.1038/s41598-018-34796-8/CC BY 4.0) High-grade gliomas such as ...

Setting the standard: NPL’s portable calorimeter provides a more accurate reference point for proton-beam dosimetry. (Courtesy: NPL) “PPRIG was set up by NPL in 2012 to progress UK deployment of ...

The weak nuclear force doesn't play by the normal rules — and, in fact, it breaks one of the biggest rules of all.

WASHINGTON, D.C., July 20, 2009 -- Proton therapy -- which uses beams of the subatomic particles to treat cancer -- is a hot topic at this year's American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) ...

For almost a decade, physicists have been baffled by the so-called proton radium puzzle: using different methods of measurement, they obtained two numbers that are slightly yet significantly different ...

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Startup Leo Cancer Care is transforming proton radiation treatment with a simple idea: having patients sit up instead of ...

How big is a proton? This doesn't sound like a very complicated question, but it's one that turned out to have the potential to wreck a lot of modern physics. That's because different methods of ...