Hadron physics

Shown schematically here is a particle traversing a pixel layer from the lower left and decaying before the next layer, causing multiple hits to appear. For this technique to be effective the particle should decay into many daughter particles. B hadrons have this property. Shown schematically here is a particle traversing a pixel layer from the lower left and decaying before the next layer, causing multiple hits to appear. For this technique to be effective the particle should decay into many daughter particles. B hadrons have this property.Shown schematically here is a particle traversing a pixel layer from the lower left and decaying before the next layer, causing multiple hits to appear. For this technique to be effective the particle should decay into many daughter particles. B hadrons have this property. © IOP Publishing, All Rights Reserved

Finding ultra-high energy B-hadrons in high energy physics

By Colin Adcock on July 1, 2016

Professor Todd Huffman tells us about a new technique that could dramatically, and simply, increase the sensitivity of ATLAS detectors to B hadrons.

The quark structure of the proton

Evolving images of the proton: hadron physics over the past 40 years

By Colin Adcock on April 29, 2016

“Once upon a time, the world was simple: the proton contained three quarks, two ups and a down. “