Tantalizing signs of phase-change ‘turbulence’ in RHIC collisions
Fluctuations in net proton production hint at a possible 'critical point' marking a change in the way nuclear matter transforms ...
Tag: Nuclear Physics
National panel chaired by PPPL expert urges fusion pilot plant by 2035-2040
Such a plant would impact the transition to a low-carbon emission electrical systemCredit: Photos and collage by Elle Starkman/PPPL Office ...
Extreme-scale computing and AI forecast a promising future for fusion power
Credit: Photo by Elle Starkman/PPPL Office of Communications. Simulation and image from Robert Hager and Seung-Hoe Ku. Efforts to duplicate ...
Sensing suns
Astronomers accurately measure the temperature of red supergiant starsCredit: © 2021 Andrew Klinger Red supergiants are a class of star ...
Nuclear physicists on the hunt for squeezed protons
Nuclear physicists crank up the energy to put the squeeze on the proton and its quarksCredit: DOE's Jefferson Lab While ...
New machine learning theory raises questions about nature of science
Credit: Elle Starkman / PPPL Office of Communications A novel computer algorithm, or set of rules, that accurately predicts the ...
Scientists discovered new physical effects important for the ITER reactor operation
Researchers discovered new effects, which affect the energy flow in the reactorCredit: Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University The energy ...
Charge radii of exotic potassium isotopes challenge nuclear structure theory
Credit: CERN In nuclear physics so-called magic number are such nuclear proton and/or neutron numbers, for which the nucleus is ...
“Ghost particle” ML model permits full quantum description of the solvated electron
Credit: @Vladimir Rybkin The behavior of the solvated electron e-aq has fundamental implications for electrochemistry, photochemistry, high-energy chemistry, as well ...
First images of muon beams
The quality of muon beams can now be assessed thanks to a new technique that has produced the first known ...
Solving complex physics problems at lightning speed
Credit: Illustration: Andreas Ekström and Yen Strandqvist/Chalmers University of Technology A calculation so complex that it takes twenty years to ...
New concept for rocket thruster exploits the mechanism behind solar flares
Credit: Elle Starkman (PPPL Office of Communications) and ITER A new type of rocket thruster that could take humankind to ...
Compelling evidence of neutrino process opens physics possibilities
Credit: Rex Tayloe/Indiana University The COHERENT particle physics experiment at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has firmly ...
Change of course on the journey to the island of stability
Center of the island of stability is not located at element 114 -- Heavier elements will move into the spotlightCredit: ...
INL partners with Coreform to improve open-source modeling and simulation tool MOOSE
Credit: Idaho National Laboratory Long before an advanced nuclear reactor begins to generate power or another complicated project comes to ...
Solar activity reconstructed over a millennium
Credit: ETH Zürich What goes on in the sun can only be observed indirectly. Sunspots, for instance, reveal the degree ...
Filling a crucial gap in aquafarming: ion beam breeding to the rescue
Credit: RIKEN A research team led by scientists at the RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science (RNC) has successfully created ...
Two Berkeley Lab scientists honored with the Lawrence Award
The Department of Energy's award goes to a microbiologist and a nuclear physicist.Credit: Berkeley Lab, Noah Berger/UC Berkeley, Princeton University ...
Machine learning improves particle accelerator diagnostics
A new machine learning system can correctly diagnose particle accelerator component issues in real-timeCredit: DOE's Jefferson Lab Operators of the ...
Experiment to precisely measure electrons moves forward
Project approval in hand, the MOLLER experiment moves forward to provide a precise measurement of a well-understood process in hopes ...