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Nucl-Ex represents the dynamic frontier where scientists probe the fundamental building blocks of matter through high-energy experiments. By smashing particles together at incredible speeds or observing rare cosmic events, researchers uncover the forces that govern our universe and test the limits of our current understanding of physics.
At Gist.Science, we ensure these breakthroughs reach a broader audience by processing every new preprint in this field directly from arXiv. For each study, we provide both a clear, plain-language explanation of the core discoveries and a detailed technical summary for those seeking deeper insights. Below are the latest papers in nuclear experiment research, curated to help you stay informed on the latest developments from the lab.
This paper investigates spin-spin entanglement in Compton scattering across low and high energy regimes, establishing a no-go theorem for real amplitudes in unpolarized scattering and demonstrating that polarized scattering off nucleons produces diverse maximally entangled states sensitive to electromagnetic polarizabilities, thereby proposing entanglement as a novel probe for nucleon structure.
This Early Science Report from the ePIC Collaboration demonstrates that the Electron-Ion Collider's initial years of operation, utilizing realistic beam configurations and detailed detector simulations, will deliver world-leading insights into Quantum Chromodynamics by addressing core scientific pillars such as nucleon mass origin, spin structure, and dense gluonic matter, while simultaneously establishing methodologies for the full physics program.
This paper demonstrates that a geometrically conditioned Fourier Neural Operator can serve as a highly accurate, millisecond-scale surrogate for free-boundary Grad-Shafranov equilibria, achieving speedups of up to 640 times over traditional solvers while maintaining physics-consistent precision in predicting poloidal flux and plasma boundary locations.
This paper presents the first measurement of the three-proton correlation function in 13.6 TeV pp collisions at the LHC, demonstrating that three-hadron femtoscopy serves as an effective 33 scattering experiment that reveals a novel long-range attractive component in the isospin 3/2 three-body system and opens new avenues for studying three-body dynamics in the strangeness sector.
The SIDDHARTA-2 experiment at the DAΦNE collider presents the first measurement of M-series transitions in kaonic helium-4 and significantly improves the statistical precision of the 2p level energy shift and width, providing new experimental insights into strong interaction effects and density-dependent transition yields.
The SIDDHARTA-2 collaboration successfully performed high-precision measurements of kaonic neon X-ray transitions at the DANE collider, demonstrating the feasibility of sub-eV spectroscopy with low-Z gaseous targets and providing critical data to refine theoretical models of de-excitation processes and test Quantum Electrodynamics in strange exotic atoms.
This paper demonstrates for the first time that rotation significantly shapes Type I X-ray bursts in rapidly spinning neutron stars by reducing surface gravity and inducing mixing, which shortens recurrence times, lowers burst energies, and broadens light curves.
Using a Bayesian framework with a meta-model equation of state and mock high-precision data, this study investigates how future X-ray and gravitational wave observations of neutron star radii with sub-0.1 km accuracy will constrain the fine-features of dense matter, including hadronic and quark phases and their transition.
This paper presents the first electroexcitation amplitudes for nucleon resonances in the third resonance region, derived from electroproduction cross sections measured by the CLAS detector, which successfully extract electrocouplings for established states like and , provide new data for and at GeV, and reveal evidence for a new state.
This paper reviews the key historical experiments in hadron physics, tracing the evolution from the 1940s discoveries of pions and kaons through the evidence for internal quark structures to the emergence of complex multi-quark hadrons in the 21st century.