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Using ultra-high-precision laser spectroscopy on a simple molecule, a group of physicists led by Professor Stephan Schiller Ph.D. from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) has measured the wave-like vibration of atomic nuclei with an…

The CALorimetric Electron Telescope (CALET), aboard the Kibo's Exposed Facility (EF) of the International Space Station, has been on a mission to measure the flux of cosmic ray particles since 2015. In a new study, an international team of…

A new analysis supports the idea that particles of light (photons) colliding with heavy ions create a fluid of "strongly interacting" particles. The calculations are based on the hydrodynamic particle flow seen in collisions of various…

Nuclear physicists have found a way to peer inside the deepest recesses of atomic nuclei, according to a new study. The finding was made possible using the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in New…

In principle, quantum-based devices such as computers and sensors could vastly outperform conventional digital technologies for carrying out many complex tasks. But developing such devices in practice has been a challenging problem despite…

Powered by supermassive black holes swallowing matter in the centers of galaxies, active galactic nuclei are the most powerful compact steady sources of energy in the universe. The brightest active galactic nuclei have long been known to…

Nuclear physicists have found a new way to use the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) -- a particle collider at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory -- to see the shape and details inside atomic nuclei.…

How are galaxies born, and what holds them together? Astronomers assume that dark matter plays an essential role. However, as yet it has not been possible to prove directly that dark matter exists. A research team including Technical…

A new study led by the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has measured how long it takes for several kinds of exotic nuclei to decay. The paper, published today in Physical Review Letters, marks the…

The protons and neutrons that build the nucleus of the atom frequently pair up. Now, a new high-precision experiment conducted at the U.S. Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility has found that these particles…