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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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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.

Physicists Hunted a Mysterious Particle – and Found Two Unexpected Structures Instead

A first attempt to produce a mysterious strangeonium state using a photon beam yielded important and unexpected results. Physicists have spent decades trying to organize the growin...

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,...

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...

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...

A single atomic nucleus hit Utah with the force of a pitched baseball

On the evening of October 15, 1991, the University of Utah's Fly's Eye detector at Dugway Proving Ground recorded a single subatomic particle arriving from space with an energy of...

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...

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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...

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.

Matter of pure force: US, Israeli physicists hail China’s glueball discovery as ‘triumph’

The international physics community has hailed a Chinese-led discovery as a “triumph” after researchers presented the strongest evidence yet for the existence of the “glueball” – a...

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,...

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...

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...

Missing decay at BESIII points to long-sought glueball

Heavy particle could be dominated by gluons The post Missing decay at BESIII points to long-sought glueball appeared first on Physics World.

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...

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...