This press release is also available in German. There are two fundamentally distinct families of particles in nature: bosons and fermions. Being a boson or a fermion has profound consequences on the ...

The ATLAS collaboration, the large research consortium involved in analyzing data collected by the ATLAS particle collider at CERN, recently observed the electroweak production of two Z bosons and two ...

When a one-dimensional gas of strongly interacting bosons expands, the velocity distribution of the bosons transforms into one that is identical to non-interacting fermions. Bosons and fermions, the ...

Receive emails about upcoming NOVA programs and related content, as well as featured reporting about current events through a science lens. Large Hadron Collider at CERN isn’t a single-purpose ...

Experimentalists and theorists search for Higgs bosons escaping as dark matter. When a Higgs boson is created in the high-energy proton collisions inside the Large Hadron Collider, it is so unstable ...

Using single-atom-resolved microscopy, ultracold quantum gases composed of two types of atoms reveal distinctly different spatial correlations — the bosons on the left exhibit bunching, while the ...

The Higgs boson has existed since the earliest moments of our universe. Its directionless field permeates all of space and entices transient particles to slow down and burgeon with mass. Without the ...

A boson sampler that uses atoms rather than photons has been developed by researchers in the US. The team used its system to determine a complex quantum state more accurately than would be practicable ...