Scientists used the STAR detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) to track how upsilon particles dissociate in quark-gluon plasma. These upsilons are made…
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A new study shows that even the most fundamental building blocks of matter, atoms, can serve as a computing repository where all input and output…
Researchers have discovered that complex random behaviors naturally emerge from even the simplest, chaotic dynamics in a quantum simulator. This illustration zooms into one such…
Physicists at MIT have devised a protocol for verifying the accuracy of quantum experiments. A recent development offers a method to confirm the validity of…
New data show that local fluctuations in the nuclear strong force may influence the spin orientation of particles called phi mesons (made of two quarks…
The breakthrough opens up new possibilities for research into the atomic-scale manipulation of materials important to the future For the first time, scientists formed a charged rare…
A new precision measurement of the proton’s electric polarizability has confirmed the presence of an anomaly, raising questions about its origin. Precision measurement of how…
In a new study, scientists performed new measurements of Compton scattering from the proton. The proton is a nuclear particle with a positive electric charge…
Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/CI Lab Imagine taking a star with twice the mass of the Sun and crushing it down to the size…
When a star dies, the violent ending can lead to the birth of a neutron star. Neutron stars are real heavyweights in the universe –…
“Visualizing the Proton” – Physicists’ Innovative Animation Depicts the Subatomic World in a New Way
“Visualizing the Proton” – Physicists’ Innovative Animation Depicts the Subatomic World in a New Way
MIT professor of physics Richard Milner, Jefferson Laboratory physicists Rolf Ent and Rik Yoshida, MIT documentary filmmakers Chris Boebel and Joe McMaster, and Sputnik Animation’s…
Artist’s impression of the decay of a 149Lu nucleus into a 148Yb nucleus and a proton. Credit: University of Jyväskylä A new atomic nucleus 149-Lutetium,…
For the first time, physicists extracted the detailed “energy-dependent neutrino-argon interaction cross section,” a key value for studying how neutrinos change their flavor Physicists studying…
Theories were introduced as far back as the 1960s about the possible existence of superheavy elements. Their most long-lived nuclei could give rise to a…
The proton (red) has a radius of 0.84 femtometers (fm). Also shown in the figure are the three quarks that make up the proton and…
A duo of theorists proposes a new theory to explain both the surprisingly small mass of the Higgs boson and the puzzling symmetry properties of…
The team of academician GUO Guangcan of University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has made important progress…
Image representing new isotope magnesium-18. Credit: S. M. Wang/Fudan University and Facility for Rare Isotope Beams Spartans joined an international team to create an isotope…
This simulation shows two dense neutron stars colliding. The collision has formed a black hole orbited by a whirlpool of magnetized gas. Some matter emerges…
Mismatched partners are being cooled: A single beryllium ion (red, left) and a single highly charged argon ion (purple, right) are bombarded by lasers from…