Researchers at the University of Nottingham have achieved a scientific breakthrough by trapping krypton atoms inside carbon nanotubes, creating a one-dimensional gas. This was accomplished…
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Emission of a single photon in the Maxwell fish-eye lens. Credit: Oliver Diekmann (TU Wien) Scientists have developed “quantum ping-pong”: Using a special lens, two…
FRIB, a pioneering nuclear research facility at Michigan State University, has significantly advanced our understanding of atomic nuclei by producing over 210 rare isotopes since…
Researchers have unraveled the complex structure of the carbon-12 nucleus, revealing that its lower energy states consist of clusters forming triangular shapes. This discovery by…
Representation of nuclear matter on the left and of quark matter on the right. The question mark alludes to the question of whether these liquids…
Quark gluon plasma (QGP) is a unique state of matter produced by colliding heavy nuclei in laboratories, leading to the creation of a QGP fireball.…
The neutrons and protons are present in the carbon nucleus as three clusters of four. Depending on the energy state of the nucleus, these can…
Groundbreaking research by the Institute of Modern Physics reveals molecular-type structures in the ground state of atomic nuclei, providing experimental evidence for a decades-old hypothesis…
Three researchers were awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in physics for their groundbreaking work in studying electrons using attosecond-long flashes of light. These infinitesimally short…
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…
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
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…