January 26, 2024
Revealed: Quantum Entanglement among Quarks
Quantum simulations reveal the presence of entanglement among the quarks produced in high energy collisions.
January 22, 2024
Long-Lived State in Radioactive Sodium Discovered at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams
A newly discovered excited state in radioactive sodium-32 has an unusually long lifetime, and its shape dynamics could be the cause.
January 19, 2024
Unlocking the Secrets of the Universe through Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay
Scientists investigate neutrinoless double beta decay through neutrino mass and the nuclear structure of germanium-76.
January 17, 2024
Seeing the Shape of Atomic Nuclei
New theoretical work indicates that the future Electron Ion Collider can be used to measure the shape of atomic nuclei.
January 16, 2024
Discovery of Low-lying Isomeric States in Cesium-136 Has Applications in Particle Astrophysics
Measurements of the nuclear structure of cesium-136 open a new channel for measurements of astrophysical neutrinos and searches for dark matter.
January 8, 2024
Testing the Gallium Anomaly
The Baksan Experiment on Sterile Transitions (BEST) finds evidence of the sterile neutrino, a hypothetical particle that interacts only via gravity.
January 4, 2024
The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams after One Year of Operation
Department of Energy user facility helps probe questions from changes in the structure of nuclei to nuclear reactions that shape the Universe.
December 28, 2023
A Dense Quark Liquid Is Distinct from a Dense Nucleon Liquid
Matter inside neutron stars can have different forms: a dense liquid of nucleons or a dense liquid of quarks.
December 26, 2023
Scientists Probe the Emergent Structure of the Carbon Nucleus
Researchers examine the structure of the low-energy nuclear states of carbon-12 using nuclear lattice effective field theory.
December 20, 2023
How Do Quark-Gluon-Plasma Fireballs Explode into Hadrons?
Scientists translate predictions of hydrodynamics into experimentally observable particle patterns.