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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.
The ALICE Collaboration presents measurements of charged energy-energy correlators in proton-proton and proton-lead collisions at 5.02 TeV, demonstrating that these observables effectively distinguish between parton shower and hadronization models while revealing that cold nuclear matter effects on charged EECs are consistent with charge-independent behavior.
The ALICE experiment reports the first measurement of the two-point energy-energy correlator (EEC) inside charged-particle jets in p-Pb collisions at TeV, revealing a modification relative to pp collisions characterized by suppression at small angles and enhancement at large angles, which provides new constraints on cold nuclear matter effects relevant for understanding jet-structure modifications in heavy-ion collisions.
This study confirms that the isomeric state in Si possesses a dominant single-neutron configuration and reveals that the hindrance of its decay to the state arises from a lack of participation by both protons and neutrons rather than differences in neutron structure overlap.
This paper reviews experimental data on electric dipole polarizability in nuclei from Ca to Pb, demonstrating how comparisons with theoretical models constrain neutron skin thickness and indicate a soft symmetry energy equation of state around nuclear saturation density.
This paper discusses the significant impact of Angela Bracco's research on the electric dipole response of nuclei by examining three key areas: the decay width of the giant dipole resonance, the equivalence of photo-absorption and emission, and the nature of the pygmy dipole resonance.
This study presents new total photoabsorption cross sections for several $sd$-shell nuclei derived from small-angle 295 MeV proton scattering, comparing the results with artificial neural network predictions and configuration-interaction shell-model calculations to validate the latter's ability to describe fragmented electric dipole strength for applications in ultrahigh-energy cosmic ray research.
This pedagogical review synthesizes experimental data from relativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions with Lattice QCD predictions to explore the existence and properties of the quark-gluon plasma and the broader QCD phase diagram.
This paper presents a supervised machine learning approach for automating nuclide identification in HPGe gamma spectrometry, which achieves a superior F1 score of 0.97 compared to traditional software (0.84) and utilizes SHAP values to confirm that the model relies on physically relevant photopeaks for its predictions.
This study employs an effective Lagrangian approach to successfully reproduce the production cross sections of high-orbital-excitation kaons in reactions and predicts that other such states exhibit sizable, forward-peaked cross sections, indicating their strong potential for experimental observation.
This paper outlines the design and physics capabilities of the Compressed Baryonic Matter (CBM) experiment at FAIR, which aims to explore the QCD phase structure at high net-baryon densities by utilizing a high-rate, triggerless data acquisition system to measure rare probes such as multi-strange hadrons, dileptons, and hypernuclei.