The stuff of protons: gluing quarks to make protons, neutrons, and atomic nuclei. (quantum chromodynamics research)

Science News | August 27, 1994| | Copyright

At the frontiers of high-energy physics, electrons hurtle into protons, protons smash into antiprotons, and electrons collide with positrons. Out of the showers and jets of exotic particles created in these high-speed crashes, physicists have fashioned what is now known as the standard model of particle physics: Matter consists of two kinds of fundamental particles, quarks and leptons, and four basic forces govern the attraction, repulsion, and transformations of these particles.

It's a remarkably tidy picture, but the rapid pace of this trek to the frontier has ...

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