Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS ... even very small nuclei with large ones might create tiny specks of a quark-gluon plasma ... Heating plasma to the ultra-high temperatures needed for fusion ...

Scientists believe such a substance of free quarks and gluons, the building blocks of protons and neutrons, permeated the universe a fraction of a second after the Big Bang. RHIC's energetic ...

Even once researchers can reliably get more power out of a fusion reaction than they put in, they'll still need to overcome engineering challenges to scale up fusion energy. The experiment ...

Jets are created when a quark or gluon within a proton or neutron in one of RHIC’s ion beams collides intensely with a quark or gluon in the nuclear particles that make up the beam traveling in ...

It should have been bigger news. When the National Ignition Facility conducted a successful fusion experiment, we got a front-row seat to what could happen if this technology is ever perfected.

Inside the proton, quarks and gluons shift and morph their properties in ways that physicists are still struggling to understand. Rithya Kunnawalkam Elayavalli brings to the problem a perspective ...

Scientists have peered inside protons and discovered that quarks and gluons, their fundamental building blocks, experience quantum entanglement. Entangled particles are connected to each other ...