Newswise — Nuclear physicists, theorists, students, and others gathered for the 2025 RHIC & AGS Users’ Meeting at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory May 20-23 to…
Category: Particle Physics
Polarized Target a Perfect Fit for Measuring Spinning Particles
BYLINE: Chris Patrick Newswise — In this International Year of Quantum Science and Technology, physicists worldwide are celebrating a century since the establishment of quantum mechanics. The celebration has brought to…
MIT Researchers Use Frontier to Model the Density, Pressure Inside Neutron Stars
Newswise — For astrophysicists, neutron stars stand out as objects of irresistible fascination — perhaps, in part, because of how difficult they are to decipher. But calculations conducted on the…
Physicists Measure Muon Particle’s Model-Defying Wiggle
Newswise — Particle physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory have released the third and final measurements of a mysterious “wobbling” of a subatomic particle called…
Muon G-2 Announces Most Precise Measurement of the Magnetic Anomaly of the Muon
BYLINE: Madeleine O’Keefe Newswise — Scientists working on the Muon g-2 experiment, hosted by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, have released their third and final measurement…
Rare Isotopes Shed Light on the Size of a Neutrino Wavepacket
The Science Newswise — Neutrinos are among the most abundant yet least understood particles in the universe. Now, nuclear scientists have measured the tiny energy of lithium atoms recoiling from the emission of…
FSU Researchers Share in Breakthrough Prize in Physics for Work at CERN
Newswise — Five Florida State University physicists are part of the international team awarded the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics for work done at the European Organization for Nuclear Research…
AI Is for Accelerators | Newswise
BYLINE: Tamara Dietrich Newswise — NEWPORT NEWS, VA – One of the things that makes the main particle accelerator at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility…
Twist of Light: New Tool May Unlock Gravity, Quantum Mechanics Link
Newswise — A team of physicists has uncovered a surprising new way to explore one of science’s greatest challenges: uniting the two fundamental theories that explain how our universe works…
To Understand a Special Hadron, Researchers Turn to Supercomputers and Quantum Chromodynamics
The Science Newswise — Hadrons are particles formed by quarks and gluons that are bound together by the strong nuclear force. Nuclear scientists need to understand how hadrons behave and interact with other…
