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Using fast particles to probe hot matter in nuclear collisions.
Cutting-edge experiment with a beam of radioactive barium ions provides direct evidence of nuclear pear-shape deformation.
New data that "wimpy" gluons, the glue-like particles that bind quarks within protons, have a big impact on proton spin.
Using tools that enable nuclear physics research into the heart of matter, scientists created a material for applications from aerospace to solar panels.
The neutron skin of the nucleus calcium-48 is much thinner than previously thought.
Nuclear physicists colliding football- and sphere-shaped ions discover evidence supporting a paradigm shift in the birth of the quark-gluon plasma.
Antiproton pairs generated in high-energy heavy-ion collisions interact with a strong attractive force.
Indirect method let scientists determine stellar reaction rates, providing detailed information about the universe.
Discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass, garners the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics.
First mixed matter/anti-matter probe aims to solve decade-old proton puzzle.
RHIC physicists discover key evidence for a long-debated phenomenon in particle collisions.
New electron spectroscopy technique may lead to an improved neutrino mass determination.
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