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Looking deep inside quarks: CMS test probes to 10⁻²⁰ meters and finds no inner structure

  • April 16, 2026 at 8:10 PM
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Looking deep inside quarks: CMS test probes to 10⁻²⁰ meters and finds no inner structure
According to our current understanding of the universe, quarks are fundamental, point-like particles: basic building blocks that are not made up of smaller particles. A recent paper from the CMS Collaboration describes how it probed quarks to the scale of 10-20 meters to test this premise.

Originally published at Phys.org

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