CERN researchers found that atomic nuclei shapes impact high-energy collision outcomes, offering new insights into nuclear ...

“The shape of nuclei affects almost all aspects of atomic nucleus and nuclear processes,” says Jie Meng, a nuclear physicist at Peking University in Beijing. The new imaging method, published ...

Nucleons, the particles that make up the nucleus of an atom, are fundamental to understanding the universe's building blocks.

Read the paper: Imaging shapes of atomic nuclei in high-energy nuclear collisions Research into nuclear structure usually involves deducing the shape of a nucleus by exciting it to a higher energy ...

Another popular method is to bombard nuclei with high-energy electrons, analysing the scattering data to infer structural ...

Scientists employ high-energy heavy ion collisions as a powerful tool to uncover intricate details of nuclear structure, ...

especially in heavy nuclei. The perspectives offered by these discoveries could revolutionize nuclear physics and pave the way for new experiments to unlock the secrets of matter. A quark is an ...

Researchers at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams made a high-precision mass measurement of aluminum-22, reaching the ...

Quantum mechanical effects induced by the building blocks of atomic nuclei, the protons and neutrons, which together make up ...