"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Researchers just found out where the secret mass of protons is located. Physicists have long known that ...

The whole is equal to the sum of its constituent parts. That's how everything works, from galaxies to planets to cities to molecules to atoms. If you take all the components of any system and look at ...

Nuclear physicists may have finally pinpointed where in the proton a large fraction of its mass resides. A recent experiment has revealed the radius of the proton's mass that is generated by the ...

A proton’s valence quarks (blue, red, and green), quark-antiquark pairs, and gluons (springs). Scalar gluon activity (pink) extends beyond the electric charge radius (orange) that surrounds the ...

Only 1% of the mass of the proton comes from the Higgs field. ALICE scientists examine a process that could help explain the rest. When protons and nuclei inside the Large Hadron Collider smash ...

What is the weight of a proton? Scientists from Germany and Japan have made an important step toward better understanding this fundamental constant. By means of precision measurements on a single ...

Scientists have released the most detailed analysis yet of how protons and neutrons acquire their mass, solving a decades-long puzzle that the Nobel Prize-winning Higgs mechanism could not explain.

July 21 (UPI) --A team of scientists from Germany and Japan have recorded the most precise measurement of a proton's mass. Researchers accomplished the feat by trapping a proton in a super sensitive ...

What is the weight of a proton? Scientists from Germany and Japan have made an important step toward better understanding this fundamental constant. By means of precision measurements on a single ...

NEWPORT NEWS, VA – Nuclear physicists may have finally pinpointed where in the proton a large fraction of its mass resides. A recent experiment carried out at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Thomas ...