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…

Search for Sterile Neutrinos Continues at Nuclear Reactors

Newswise — Neutrinos, elusive fundamental particles, can act as a window into the center of a nuclear reactor, the interior of the earth, or some of the most dynamic objects…

Argonne’s Physicists Are Redefining the Possible

BYLINE: Joseph E. Harmon and Lea E. Radick Newswise — The world’s first controlled, self-sustaining nuclear reaction was achieved at the University of Chicago as part of the Manhattan Project…

Maximal Entanglement Sheds New Light on Particle Creation

Newswise — UPTON, N.Y. — Physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory and Stony Brook University (SBU) have shown that particles produced in collimated sprays called…

Nuclear Physicists Create Scalable Quantum Circuits to Simulate Fundamental Physics

The Science Simulating matter in extreme conditions is critical to answering fundamental questions about nature. The Standard Model of particle physics provides a set of equations that can explain these mysteries. However,…

SLAC scientists created the most powerful ultrashort electron beam in the world

BYLINE: Chris Patrick Scientists have created an ultrashort electron beam with five times more peak current than any other similar beam on Earth. Described in a paper published in Physical Review Letters, this…