Particles choose partners for short-range correlations differently when farther apart in light nuclei versus when packed closer together in heavy nuclei.
As machine learning tools gain momentum, a review of machine learning projects reveals these tools are already in use throughout nuclear physics.
New measurements show the proton’s electromagnetic structure deviates from theoretical predictions.
Nuclear physicists find that the internal structures of protons and neutrons may be altered in different ways inside nuclei.
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.
