Indiana University physicists playing key roles in quest for new particles
The building blocks that make up the elements on the periodic table are straightforward. Atoms are composed of protons, neutrons and electrons. But two of those particles – neutrons and protons – haven’t been considered elementary particles since the 1960s. They’re hadrons, composed of three quarks: subatomic particles that come in six “flavors,” up, down, top, […]
