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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.
Using 2018 ATLAS data from ultra-peripheral Pb+Pb collisions at 5.02 TeV, this study provides the first experimental observation that nuclear parton distribution modifications vary with impact parameter, evidenced by a significant difference in jet production cross-sections between collisions with and without forward neutron emission.
This paper provides a subjective summary of recent results from the NA61/SHINE experiment at CERN, highlighting findings of particular importance to other major heavy-ion research programs operating at overlapping or adjacent collision energies.
This study investigates proton-induced reactions on an enriched 118Sn target up to 18 MeV using the stacked-foil activation technique, reporting first-time cross-section measurements for specific channels and revealing discrepancies between experimental data and theoretical models regarding composite-particle emission.
This paper proposes a data-driven method that utilizes the distinct time dependence and smaller size of beam contaminants to define control regions for quantifying and mitigating the impact of light-ion beam transmutation on physics analyses at colliders like the LHC and RHIC.
This paper proposes using the one-point energy correlator (OPEC) in transversely polarized proton-proton collisions as a novel, infrared-and-collinear safe method to probe the nucleon's transversity distribution with a clean angular asymmetry over a wider kinematic range than traditional hadron transverse momentum measurements.
This paper analytically demonstrates that the variation of the quark-gluon plasma volume in ultracentral collisions depends on initial density fluctuations and is negligible when total entropy scales with the mass number, thereby establishing that measurements of average transverse momentum can probe detailed nuclear structure and pre-equilibrium dynamics.
This paper proposes that quantum entanglement serves as a unifying foundation for statistical and high-energy physics, arguing that systems naturally evolve toward a Maximal Entanglement Limit where thermalization and probabilistic behaviors emerge from the geometry of high-dimensional Hilbert spaces without requiring ergodicity or classical randomness.
This paper proposes a measurement program at the Electron-Ion Collider using polarized electron scattering on deuteron and He to directly constrain the axial two-body current and resolve current discrepancies in meson-exchange current models, which are critical for reducing uncertainties in long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiments.
The ALICE experiment reports the first observation of significant suppression in neutral pion () production in oxygen-oxygen (OO) collisions at LHC energies, providing strong evidence for parton energy loss in a hot medium that exceeds predictions based solely on cold nuclear matter effects.
This paper challenges the recent MAMI collaboration's determination of the hypertriton binding energy by proposing that the observed sharp pion-momentum line instead originates from the weak decay of the ground state of hyperhelium-7 into lithium-7.