New findings from Jefferson Laboratory shed light on the process of forming strange matter from ordinary matter. Nuclear physicists have made a groundbreaking discovery through…
“Charming” Experiment Finds Gluon Mass in the Proton Experimental determination of the proton’s gluonic gravitational form factors may have revealed part of proton’s hidden mass….
Precision measurement of how a proton’s structure deforms in an electric field has revealed new details about an unexplained spike in proton data. Nuclear physicists…
Physicists peer into mirror nuclei. The atomic nucleus is a busy place. Its protons and neutrons periodically collide and fly apart with high momentum before…
When odds are equal, particles paired up with others of the same kind more often than once thought. The protons and neutrons, which make up…
Thomas Jefferson National Laboratory experiments hone in on a never-before-measured region of strong force coupling, a quantity that supports theories accounting for 99% of the…
Experiment exploring mirror nuclei opens the door to new details about the internal structures of protons and neutrons To understand more about the particles that…
Early-career nuclear physicists show that a better understanding of how neutrinos interact with matter is needed to make the most of upcoming experiments. Neutrinos may…
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…
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…
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 of the charge radius of the proton. New measurement yields smaller proton…
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…
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne and Thomas Jefferson National Laboratories have demonstrated that a quarter of the nucleons in a dense nucleus…
