Levitation: Classic Magic Trick May Enable Quantum Computing
A new project will use the electric field in an accelerator cavity to try to levitate a tiny metallic particle, allowing it to store quantum…
Thomas Jefferson National Laboratory
Physicists High-Precision Test of Nuclear Theory Using Mirror Nuclei
A precision measurement of helium and hydrogen mirror isotopes reveals new questions in understanding of nuclear structure. It’s not often in nuclear physics that you…
New Era of Physics: First Direct Probes of the Strongest Force in the Universe
In the first direct probes of the core of the nuclear interaction, researchers find that leading theories on interactions between protons and neutrons describe them…
Physicists Get Closer to Solving the Proton Radius Puzzle With Unique New Measurement
Physicists get closer to solving the proton radius puzzle with unique new measurement of the charge radius of the proton. New measurement yields smaller proton…
Physicists Use Cheap Colliders to Probe for Heavy photons
A three-week experiment is set to start on April 24th at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility in Newport News, Virginia, in which electrons will…
Nucleons in a Dense Nucleus Exceed 25 Percent of the Speed of Light
Researchers at U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne and Thomas Jefferson National Laboratories have demonstrated that a quarter of the nucleons in a dense nucleus exceed…