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 reports the successful creation of ultra-low-density graphene aerogel nuclear fuels loaded with uranium or thorium, which enable high-energy fission fragments to escape without full thermalization, offering promising applications for fission fragment space propulsion, direct energy conversion, and medical radiotherapeutics.
The paper predicts that anomalous proton number fluctuations observed in heavy-ion collisions around a center-of-mass energy of 10 GeV serve as a signature for the onset of deconfinement, offering a unified explanation for experimental data from both RHIC and the CERN SPS.
This paper reviews recent lattice QCD results on strongly interacting matter under extreme conditions, focusing on the finite-temperature transition at zero baryon chemical potential, the search for a critical endpoint at finite density, and thermodynamic properties under external influences such as magnetic fields, rotation, and acceleration.
This paper proposes a derivative analysis approach that successfully identifies fission modes and their properties in the 180Hg region, even when experimental data suffers from limited mass resolution, low statistics, and structureless mass distributions that typically render standard identification methods ambiguous.
This paper presents a theoretical analysis demonstrating that finite size and lifetime effects in heavy-ion collisions modify the momentum-space two-point correlation function of baryon density, resulting in an effective scaling exponent that matches the infinite-system value only within a specific, experimentally accessible momentum range.
This study addresses discrepancies in existing data by measuring proton-induced reaction cross sections on lanthanum across a 55–200 MeV energy range using stacked-foil activation, and subsequently improves the predictive accuracy of nuclear reaction models like TALYS through parameter adjustments to better support the production of the therapeutic radionuclide analogue Ce.
This paper proposes utilizing the Electron-Ion Collider to test quantum entanglement and Bell nonlocality by analyzing spin correlations in quark-antiquark pairs produced via photon-gluon fusion, highlighting the facility's cleaner environment and strong signal potential for verifying these quantum phenomena compared to hadron colliders.
This paper calculates the tensor-polarized twist-3 parton distribution function for the spin-1 deuteron by applying twist-2 relations to the known twist-2 function , demonstrating that is comparable in magnitude to and suggesting that current and future facilities like JLab and the EIC are well-suited to investigate these higher-twist effects.
Researchers utilized the Canadian Penning Trap to measure the masses of ground and isomeric states in tin and antimony isotopes near Sn, identifying Sn as a significant "astromer" that influences nucleosynthesis in the - and -processes.
This study presents the first extraction of the nuclear level density and -ray strength function for the neutron-deficient In isotope using the Oslo method, revealing significant deviations from current model predictions and providing refined constraints for astrophysical -process simulations.