A first-of-its-kind measurement of the rare calcium-48 nucleus found a neutron-rich “thin skin” around a core of more evenly distributed protons and neutrons.
Colliding gold nuclei at various energies enables scientists to investigate phases of nuclear matter and their possible co-existence at a critical point.
Theoretical study exploits precision of new heavy ion collision data to predict how gluons are distributed inside protons and neutrons
The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams has demonstrated an innovative liquid-lithium charge stripper to accelerate unprecedentedly high-power heavy-ion beams.
The results may offer insight into the quark-gluon plasma—the hot mix of fundamental nuclear-matter building blocks that filled the early universe.
Photon-deuteron collisions offer insight into the gluons that bind the building blocks of matter—and what it takes to break protons and neutrons apart.
Adding a little oxygen to particle accelerator structures may make them more efficient and easier to build.
The search for “broken symmetry” may offer new insight into nuclear structure.
A recent measurement of the neutron-rich “skin” around lead nuclei reveals new details of neutron behavior and the dynamics of neutron stars
Nuclear theorists demonstrate a new method for computing the strengths of subatomic interactions that include up to three particles.
Scientists find strong evidence for the long-predicted Breit-Wheeler effect—generating matter and antimatter from collisions of real photons.
Nuclear scientists devise an indirect method of measuring the speed of sound in matter created in heavy-ion collisions.
