The weak nuclear force doesn't play by the normal rules — and, in fact, it breaks one of the biggest rules of all.

Of the four known fundamental forces of nature, the weak nuclear force is the one with the least obvious purpose. Gravity ...

Physical Review Letters, PRL, the world’s premier physics letter journal, has published two papers by a team of Louisiana State University nuclear physics researchers to advance the knowledge on the ...

In this video, we explore the fundamental forces of nature and their interactions with particles, structured as follows: 0:00 ...

A spinning neutron disintegrates into a proton, electron, and antineutrino when a down quark in the neutron emits a W boson and converts into an up quark. The exchange of quanta of light (γ) among ...

A new result from the Q-weak experiment at the Department of Energy’s Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility provides a precision test of the weak force, one of four fundamental forces in ...