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Quantum chromodynamics is a type of quantum field theory with symmetry group SU(3).
With new measurements of hadron–deuteron correlations, the ALICE collaboration explores the strong interaction of three-body systems at the LHC.
This is the first measurement of the neutron skin of lead-208 using exchanges predominantly involving gluons and it can provide insight into the structure of nuclei and neutron stars
New ALICE results shed light on the nature of gluonic matter at the LHC
The CMS collaboration has measured for the first time the variation, or “running”, of the top-quark mass
The new particle, dubbed the ψ3(1D), was observed in data recorded between 2011 and 2018
The CMS collaboration at CERN has submitted its first paper based on the full LHC dataset collected in 2018 and data collected in 2016 and 2017
Forty years ago quarks gained their freedom – at least theoretically – and the modern theory of the strong interaction began to emerge