Here’s something you rarely see so up close. The photograph above shows one of 18 optical modules inside KM3NeT, a massive detector for neutrinos, which are nearly massless,…
Read more Dive Into the Elusive World of Particles With the Global Physics Photowalk FinalistsA team of researchers at MIT think they may have lowered one of the major barriers to achieving large-scale nuclear fusion—taking us one step closer to making an…
Read more Scientists Just Took a Giant Step Toward Scaling Up Nuclear FusionThe Science Newswise — Fixed numbers of protons and neutrons – the building blocks of nuclei – can rearrange themselves within a single nucleus. The products of this reshuffling include electromagnetic (gamma ray) transitions.…
Read more Machine Learning Techniques Enhance the Discovery of Excited Nuclear Levels in Sulfur-38The Science Newswise — The element carbon is critical to organic chemistry and life as we know it. The physics of its most common isotope, carbon-12, are extremely complex.…
Read more Scientists Probe the Emergent Structure of the Carbon NucleusNewswise — One of the annoying side effects of being absorbed in a gripping novel is that the cup of tea on the table becomes cold! Unfortunately, the…
Read more New Way to Determine Arrow of TimeNewswise — Quantum materials hold the key to a future of lightning-speed, energy-efficient information systems. The problem with tapping their transformative potential is that, in solids, the vast…
Read more Dance sparks magnetism’s birthNewswise — The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, a bastion of nuclear physics research for the past 80 years, is poised to strengthen its programs and…
Read more ORNL is poised to have a major role in the future of nuclear physicsBYLINE: Matt Davenport Images Highlights: The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science, or DOE-SC, is investing in machine learning, a type of artificial intelligence, to accelerate the…
Read more MSU, FRIB developing artificial intelligence tools to enhance discovery, technology and trainingThe Science Not all of the material around us is stable. Some materials may undergo radioactive decay to form more stable isotopes. Scientists have now observed a new decay mode for…
Read more Scientists Make the First Observation of a Nucleus Decaying into Four Particles After Beta DecayThe Science Scientists can use powerful colliders to smash atomic nuclei together to create a quark-gluon plasma (QGP). This “soup” of quarks and gluons, some of the fundamental building blocks of matter, filled…
Read more Calculations Predict Surprising Quark Diffusion in Hot Nuclear MatterNewswise — By directly measuring Relative Stopping Power (RSP) with ions, a pixel sensor based named “Hi’CT” project with multi-layer structure reduces the risk of range uncertainty, a…
Read more Hi’CT: Revolutionary Pixel Sensor-Based Image Device Enhances Precision in Ion TherapyThe Science What scientists call the “nuclear weak distribution” describes the distribution of “active” protons in a nucleus. These are protons that are eligible to transition into neutrons through what scientists call the…
Read more Nuclear Charge Distribution Measurements May Solve Outstanding Puzzle In Particle PhysicsNewswise — Salt isn’t just for popcorn anymore. In fact, molten salt has caught the eye of the nuclear industry as an ideal working fluid for reactor cooling,…
Read more How Molten Salt Could Be the Lifeblood of Tomorrow’s Nuclear EnergyThe Science The building blocks of atomic nuclei are protons and neutrons, which are themselves made of even more fundamental particles: quarks and gluons. These particles interact via the “strong” force, one of the…
Read more Resolving a Mathematical Puzzle in Quarks and Gluons in Nuclear MatterThe Science Outside atomic nuclei, neutrons are unstable particles, with a lifetime of about fifteen minutes. The neutron disintegrates due to the weak nuclear force, leaving behind a proton,…
Read more New Insights on the Interplay of Electromagnetism and the Weak Nuclear ForceNewswise — A crowd gathers around a black wooden box that resembles a short refrigerator, waiting for the motion of a pair of robotic arms sitting just outside…
Read more First-of-a-Kind Technology: INL Demonstrates Mobile Hot Cell for Radioactive Source RecoveryThe Science Inside the proton are elementary particles called quarks. Quarks and protons have an intrinsic angular momentum called spin. Spin can point in different directions. When it…
Read more Zeroing in on a Fundamental Property of the Proton’s Internal DynamicsThe Science There is so much that we do not yet know about neutrinos. Neutrinos are very light, chargeless, and elusive particles that are involved in a process named beta…
Read more Understanding the Origin of Matter with the CUORE ExperimentNewswise — The demand for renewable energy is continuously growing worldwide. Arif Efendi previously of Doyen Sports notes that the latest efforts in renewables will be crucial to…
Read more Arif Efendi applauds global renewable energy effortsThe Science Nuclear physicists collide protons with heavier ions (atomic nuclei) to explore the fundamental constituents that make up those ions. By tracking particles that stream out of the collisions,…
Read more Signs of Gluon Saturation Emerge from Particle Collisions
