548 papers
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 demonstrates that the parity-transfer reaction serves as a highly selective probe for isovector excitations in nuclei, as evidenced by the clear observation and forward-peaked angular distributions of the known state and potential new structures in the excitation spectrum.
This paper calculates next-to-leading order nuclear matrix elements for two-neutrino double-beta decay to excited states in key isotopes using the nuclear shell model, finding that while NLO corrections are typically small, they can become significant due to leading-order cancellations, and that nuclear deformation and seniority structure critically influence the predicted half-lives.
This paper presents flexible, single-photon sensitive optoelectronic fibres integrated with silicon photomultipliers and tungsten-merino wool braiding, enabling the machine-weaving of large-area, conformal textile fabrics capable of real-time, high-spatial-resolution gamma radiation dosimetry.
This study demonstrates that in high-energy oxygen-oxygen collisions at 5.36 TeV, the produced QCD matter only partially reaches local equilibrium, necessitating a core-corona framework rather than a purely hydrodynamic approach to accurately describe the dynamics, particularly the incomplete chemical equilibrium observed in strange baryon yields.
This study demonstrates that using transverse spherocity to classify Pb+Pb collisions into isotropic and jetty topologies provides a cleaner and more reliable method for probing the Chiral Magnetic Effect by effectively suppressing flow-driven and resonance-decay backgrounds compared to traditional flow-vector-based approaches.
The CMS experiment at the LHC reports the first observation of nuclear suppression in coherent (1S) photoproduction off heavy nuclei, measuring a nuclear gluon suppression factor of at a high energy scale of GeV and .
This study employs a deep-learning-assisted quasi-particle model trained on lattice QCD data to efficiently estimate the thermodynamic and transport properties of quark-gluon plasma at finite baryon chemical potential, demonstrating strong agreement with existing calculations.
Using the parton-hadron string dynamics (PHSD) transport model, this study predicts transverse momentum spectra and yield characteristics of identified particles in Au+Au collisions across various beam energies and centralities, highlighting the critical roles of baryon stopping and strangeness production while providing theoretical context for current and future heavy-ion beam energy scan programs.
This paper presents a comprehensive prediction of particle-induced backgrounds for the NUCLEUS experiment at the Chooz nuclear power plant, demonstrating through environmental measurements and Geant4 simulations that the setup achieves sufficient background rejection to enable the detection of Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering with a signal-to-background ratio greater than one in the sub-keV energy range.
This paper presents the first constraint on time-reversal invariance violating effects in polarized neutron transmission through a transversely polarized La target by applying a density matrix formalism to existing data, yielding an upper limit of at 90% confidence level despite the data's lack of optimization for such observables.