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Cold radioactive molecules offer a tabletop route to new physics

Nuclear symmetry violations could show up in molecules containing pear-shaped radium nuclei The post Cold radioactive molecules offer a tabletop route to new physics appeared first...

Scientists Solve a Decades-Old Mystery Inside Atomic Nuclei

Results from an experiment at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams answer a fundamental question about the structure of atomic nuclei and help explain how different elements formed...

Scientists Discover Extreme Acceleration Inside a Nuclear Fireball

Simulations reveal some of the strongest accelerations ever produced on Earth, opening new avenues for QCD research. When atomic nuclei smash together at almost the speed of light,...

Radioactive Molecules Promise Probe of New Physics

Author(s): Susan CurtisA tabletop method for producing cold radioactive molecules enables precise measurement of their properties and could uncover violations of fundamental symmet...

Nuclear Reactors Keep Emitting a Hidden Signal Long After They Shut Down

Long after a nuclear reactor goes dark, its radioactive fuel continues to whisper through matter, leaving behind a hidden signal that scientists have detected for the first time. T...

Nuclear fusion persists at ultralow energies inside metal foils

Experiment suggests the environment matters when deuterium fuses The post Nuclear fusion persists at ultralow energies inside metal foils appeared first on Physics World.

Detecting the Illicit Removal of Nuclear Fuel

Author(s): Sophia ChenSpent nuclear fuel and shutdown nuclear reactors emit antineutrinos, which nuclear watchdogs could use for real-time monitoring of plants.[Physics 19, s94] Pu...

CERN Experiment Finds Gluons Behaving Strangely Deep Inside Atomic Nuclei

ALICE measurements suggest that gluons inside nuclei begin behaving collectively at very small scales, favoring gluon saturation over conventional nuclear shadowing alone. Deep ins...

Magnetic clues inside atomic nuclei help explain how elements form in stars

The results of an experiment answer a fundamental question about the structure of atomic nuclei and, ultimately, how different elements formed in space.

Hidden chemistry of nuclear fallout glimpsed in recent experiments

The bomb drops. A nuclear blast erupts. Uranium is vaporized, where it mixes with the atmosphere and is dispersed across the land as toxic dust called fallout.Continue Reading

Antineutrino detector could monitor spent nuclear fuel for clandestine activity

Sensitive new measurements suggest that monitoring can continue even when reactors are offline The post Antineutrino detector could monitor spent nuclear fuel for clandestine activ...

Stellar explosions come into focus with new nuclear reaction measurements

In two separate papers published in Physical Review Letters, researchers investigated the nuclear reactions that take place inside supernovae and X-ray bursts—two of the universe's...

Физики впервые зафиксировали антинейтрино от отработанного ядерного топлива после остановки реактора

Источник: Компьютерра - Журнал о науке и технологиях Ученые из Института ядерной физики Общества Макса Планка (MPIK) в Гейдельберге впервые провели прямое измерение антинейтрино,...

Scientists Detect a Nuclear Reactor’s Ghostly Signal After Shutdown

Antineutrinos from residual radioactive decay can reveal activity inside nuclear reactors even after they have been shut down. A nuclear reactor does not become completely silent w...

Physicists Discover Previously Unknown Substance Born From Hiroshima Atomic Bombing

The most destructive events in human history seem to have created our strangest chemistry labs.

Bowling-Pin-Shaped Nuclei Recreate Little Big Bang, Revealing the Universe’s Origins

Physicists have recreated a fleeting state of matter believed to have filled the Universe moments after the Big Bang—by colliding atomic nuclei far smaller than the heavy lead ions...

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Quantum X-Labs Advances Quantum Computing for Nuclear Particle Transport Prediction

Insider Brief Press release – Quantum X Labs Inc. (Nasdaq: QXL) (“Quantum X” or the “Company”), an advanced technologies company, today announced that its subsidiary, Nuclear Quant...

Quantum X Labs Advances Quantum Computing for Nuclear Particle Transport Simulations

Tel Aviv-based technology company Quantum X Labs Inc. (NASDAQ: QXL) has announced that its subsidiary, Nuclear Quantum, has developed a quantum circuit-based approach to model nucl...

Protons and neutrons are more than just groups of three quarks

Comparison between theoretical models and experimental data favours alternative “baryon junctions” picture The post Protons and neutrons are more than just groups of three quarks a...

To Lase or Not to Lase: The Question of Neutrino Superradiance

Author(s): Ana Maria Rey, James K. Thompson, and Haoqing ZhangTwo studies find that fundamental quantum constraints rule out a previously proposed neutrino-laser scheme.[Physics 19...

Navigating Nuclear—From Atoms for Peace to a New Course for Commercial Nuclear Shipping Under ATLAS

Large Hadron Collider Reveals an Atomic Nucleus Shaped Like a Bowling Pin

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The proton is more quantum than we thought

Our understanding of the internal structure of protons is largely based on classical physics, but data compiled from accelerator experiments has uncovered quantum behaviour that ha...