September 25, 2023
Calculation Shows Why Heavy Quarks Get Caught Up in the Flow
New results will help physicists interpret experimental data from particle collisions and better understand the interactions of quarks and gluons.
September 20, 2023
Novel Framework Improves the Efficiency of Complex Supercomputer Physics Calculations
MemHC improves the efficiency of complex supercomputer physics calculations by optimizing memory management.
September 1, 2023
Scientists Make the First Observation of a Nucleus Decaying into Four Particles After Beta Decay
For the first time, scientists observe a new and rare decay mode where oxygen-13 breaks into three helium nuclei and a proton following beta decay.
August 25, 2023
Calculations Predict Surprising Quark Diffusion in Hot Nuclear Matter
New calculations suggest that high energy quarks should scatter wider and faster in hot quark matter than can be accounted for by local interactions.
August 21, 2023
New Insights into How Strange Matter Interacts with Ordinary Matter
First measurements of how hypernuclei flow from particle collisions may give insight into the strange matter makeup and properties of neutron stars.
August 18, 2023
In Preparation for DUNE, Scientists Examine Modern Nuclear Theory for Neutrino Oscillation Physics
Modern nuclear theory predicts that nucleons appear less “squishy” when probed with neutrinos than was previously inferred from experimental data.
August 11, 2023
Theoretical and Experimental Physics Team Up in the Search for Particle Flavor Change
Nuclear “filters” will aid in searches for new-physics events occurring with odds of one in 100 quadrillion.
August 7, 2023
With a Lithium-6 Test Case, Quantum Computing Comes to a Historic Nuclear Physics Problem
Researchers worked out how to efficiently prepare wave functions for the lithium-6 nuclear ground state and implemented those on quantum hardware.
July 31, 2023
The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR Gives Its Final Answer about a Rare Nuclear Decay
If observed, neutrinoless double-β decay would have changed our view of the Universe.
July 7, 2023
Nuclear Charge Distribution Measurements May Solve Outstanding Puzzle In Particle Physics
By reanalyzing the distribution of active protons in nuclei, researchers found a possible solution to a particle physics puzzle involving quarks.