Physics Letters B

Physics Letters B is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Elsevier that ensures the rapid publication of important new results in particle physics, nuclear physics and cosmology, launched in January 1967 as the particle and nuclear physics series of the former Physics Letters (1962 to 1966), with a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 5.0.《物理快报 B 辑》（Physics Letters B）是（Elsevier）出版的同行评审科学期刊，致力于快速发表粒子物理、核物理与宇宙学领域的重要新成果，1967 年 1 月由原《物理快报》（1962 年至 1966 年）拆分而来，2025 年期刊影响因子为 5.0。

Scope

• According to its official aims and scope, the journal ensures the rapid publication of important new results in particle physics, nuclear physics and cosmology, and specialized editors are responsible for contributions in experimental nuclear physics, theoretical nuclear physics, experimental high-energy physics, theoretical high-energy physics, astrophysics, astroparticle physics and cosmology.根据官方宗旨与范围，本刊确保快速发表粒子物理、核物理与宇宙学领域的重要新成果，并按实验核物理、理论核物理、实验高能物理、理论高能物理、天体物理、天体粒子物理与宇宙学等方向由专业编辑分工负责。
• Typical topics include quantum chromodynamics and hadron physics, neutrino physics, black holes and theoretical physics, high-energy particle collisions, nuclear structure, and cosmology and gravitation.典型主题包括量子色动力学与强子物理、中微子物理、黑洞与理论物理、高能粒子碰撞、核结构以及宇宙学与引力。
• The journal publishes short letters only, with a total length preferably not exceeding six journal pages, equivalent to ten typewritten pages, excluding the list of authors, abstract, references, figure captions and three figures.本刊仅发表快报类短文，篇幅以不超过六个期刊页为限，相当于十个隔行打印页，且不含作者名单、摘要、参考文献、图题与三幅图。
• Submissions are expected to be interesting and likely to significantly influence the research of the physics community, and there is no proofreading possibility for authors once a paper is submitted.投稿应具有新意并可能对物理学界的研究产生重要影响，且论文提交后作者不再有校对机会。
• The journal published the ATLAS and CMS discovery papers of a Higgs-like boson in volume 716 in 2012, among the most cited papers in the history of high-energy physics.本刊于 2012 年第 716 卷发表了（ATLAS）与（CMS）发现希格斯类玻色子的论文，属于高能物理史上被引最多的论文之列。
• In the 2025 Journal Citation Reports the journal ranks Q1 in three SCIE categories, namely nuclear physics (3 of 22), particles and fields physics (6 of 31) and astronomy and astrophysics (21 of 86), and it is indexed in SCIE, Scopus and DOAJ.在 2025 年期刊引证报告中，本刊在核物理（3/22）、粒子与场物理（6/31）与天文与天体物理（21/86）三个（SCIE）学科均列（Q1），并被（SCIE）、（Scopus）与（DOAJ）收录。

History

• The parent journal Physics Letters was founded in 1962 by the North-Holland Publishing Company in Amsterdam as a European rapid-publication counterpart to Physical Review Letters, and it carried the 1964 paper in which Murray Gell-Mann introduced quarks.其前身《物理快报》（Physics Letters）1962 年由阿姆斯特丹的（North-Holland）出版公司创办，是欧洲对标（Physical Review Letters）的快速发表刊物，1964 年刊登了（Murray Gell-Mann）提出夸克的论文。
• The combined journal ceased publication at the end of 1966, and from 9 January 1967 it appeared in two series, Physics Letters A for general and condensed matter physics and Physics Letters B for nuclear physics, high-energy physics and astrophysics, with volume numbering continuing from the parent journal.合并发行的《物理快报》于 1966 年底终刊，自 1967 年 1 月 9 日起分为（Physics Letters A）（普通物理与凝聚态物理）与（Physics Letters B）（核物理、高能物理与天体物理）两辑，卷号沿袭母刊。
• North-Holland merged into Elsevier in 1970, and the journal has been published by Elsevier ever since, appearing on the ScienceDirect platform.（North-Holland）于 1970 年并入（Elsevier），此后本刊一直由（Elsevier）出版，并在（ScienceDirect）平台发布。
• Since January 2014 the journal has changed from a subscription journal to an open access journal as part of the SCOAP3 initiative, with articles published open access in perpetuity under a CC BY licence and authors paying no article processing charge.2014 年 1 月起，本刊作为（SCOAP3）倡议成员由订阅期刊转为开放获取期刊，论文以（CC BY）许可永久开放发表，作者无需支付文章处理费。
• The journal appears 48 times a year in about twelve volumes, and ScienceDirect reports a median of one day to first decision, 91 days from submission to acceptance and five days from acceptance to online publication.本刊每年出版约 48 期、约十二卷，（ScienceDirect）报告的编辑流程中位数为首次决定 1 天、投稿到接受 91 天、接受到在线发表 5 天。
• Its Journal Impact Factor was 5.0 in 2025 and 4.5 in 2024, following 4.95 in 2022 and 4.771 in 2021, and the OpenAlex h-index stands at 449.本刊 2025 年期刊影响因子为 5.0，2024 年为 4.5，2022 年与 2021 年分别为 4.95 与 4.771，（OpenAlex）h 指数为 449。

Editors

• Gian F. Giudice of the European Organization for Nuclear Research in Geneva is editor in chief, with research in particle physics phenomenology and an emphasis on physics beyond the Standard Model.日内瓦欧洲核子研究组织的（Gian Giudice）任主编，研究方向为粒子物理现象学，侧重超越标准模型的新物理。
• The editorial board lists 22 editors and editorial board members organised into six sections, and the board spans institutions in Europe, North America and Asia.编委会共有 22 位编辑与编委，按六个分区设置，成员来自欧洲、北美与亚洲的机构。
• Experimental high-energy physics is covered by Michael Doser and Maurizio Pierini at CERN, and experimental nuclear physics by Haiyan Gao of Duke University and Silvia Lenzi of the University of Padua.实验高能物理由欧洲核子研究组织的（Michael Doser）与（Maurizio Pierini）负责，实验核物理由杜克大学的（Haiyan Gao）与帕多瓦大学的（Silvia Lenzi）负责。
• Theoretical high-energy physics editors are Csaba Csaki (Cornell University), Bo Feng (Beijing Computational Science Research Center), Ryuichiro Kitano (Kyoto University), Neil Lambert (King's College London), Gautam Mandal and Tuhin Roy (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research), Anastasia Volovich (Brown University) and Shi-Lin Zhu (Peking University).理论高能物理编辑包括康奈尔大学的（Csaba Csaki）、北京计算科学研究中心的（Bo Feng）、京都大学的（Ryuichiro Kitano）、伦敦国王学院的（Neil Lambert）、塔塔基础科学研究所的（Gautam Mandal）与（Tuhin Roy）、布朗大学的（Anastasia Volovich）与北京大学的（Shi-Lin Zhu）。
• Theoretical nuclear physics is handled by Francois Gelis (French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission, Saclay) and Achim Schwenk (TU Darmstadt), particle astrophysics and cosmology by Philippe Brax (Gif-sur-Yvette), Eleonora Di Valentino (University of Sheffield), Robert Mann (University of Waterloo) and Geraldine Servant (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, Hamburg), and theoretical nuclear physics and nuclear astrophysics by A. Baha Balantekin (University of Wisconsin-Madison).理论核物理由法国替代能源与原子能委员会萨克雷中心的（Francois Gelis）与达姆施塔特工业大学的（Achim Schwenk）负责，天体粒子物理与宇宙学由（Philippe Brax）、谢菲尔德大学的（Eleonora Di Valentino）、滑铁卢大学的（Robert Mann）与德国电子同步加速器的（Geraldine Servant）负责，理论核物理与核天体物理由威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校的（A. Baha Balantekin）负责。
• Peer review follows a single anonymized process, submissions are first assessed by the editors and then typically reviewed by at least one independent expert, and the editors decide on acceptance, with recusal rules for conflicts of interest and a formal one-time appeal policy.同行评审采用单匿名流程，稿件先由编辑初筛，随后通常由至少一位独立专家评审，录用与否由编辑决定，并设有利益冲突回避规则与一次性正式申诉机制。