666 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 review summarizes two decades of heavy-flavor and quarkonium measurements by the PHENIX and STAR experiments at RHIC to elucidate the microscopic structure and transport properties of the quark-gluon plasma, while outlining future prospects enabled by sPHENIX and the Electron-Ion Collider.
Using CMS data from 5.36 TeV PbPb collisions, this study reports the first observation of a significant negative spin-dependent azimuthal asymmetry in coherently photoproduced J/ mesons, confirming a theoretical model where the meson inherits the incident photon's linear polarization and suggesting a novel method for reaction plane determination.
This paper proposes that the observed breaking of Number of Constituent Quark (NCQ) scaling in elliptic flow at RHIC and FAIR energies is not a sign of the onset of partonic collectivity, but rather an artifact caused by spectator shadowing effects.
This paper presents the first measurements of differential cross sections and integrated luminosity for elastic proton-proton scattering at kinetic energies of 4.53 GeV and 1.60 GeV using the upgraded HADES detector, yielding new slope parameters and providing essential data for theoretical modeling and future luminosity calibrations.
This paper demonstrates that combining Sullivan process and target-fragmentation contributions in Pythia successfully describes HERA leading-neutron data across the full kinematic range, thereby enabling the extraction of pion parton distribution functions at smaller momentum fractions and providing optimized projections for future measurements at the Electron-Ion Collider.
This paper introduces CGC-py, a Monte Carlo event generator that integrates Color Glass Condensate physics with parton branching and hadronization to consistently model deep-inelastic scattering, validating its predictions against experimental data and demonstrating its utility for probing gluon saturation effects in future electron-ion collider measurements.
Using the CLAS12 detector at Jefferson Lab, researchers report the first measurement of near-threshold photoproduction cross sections on the neutron and bound proton, providing new constraints on production mechanisms and evidence for modifications to the gluonic structure of nucleons within the nuclear medium.
This paper presents high-precision measurements of forward-angle fragmentation differential cross sections for the C+C reaction at 62 MeV/nucleon using the FAZIA array, revealing that heavier fragments follow the Van Bibber model due to dissipative processes while alpha particles exhibit an anomalously narrow distribution attributed to the intrinsic cluster structure of C.
This paper demonstrates that integrating Halo Effective Field Theory into existing reaction codes provides an effective and efficient framework for analyzing experimental data on halo nuclei, specifically through Bayesian analysis of 19C Coulomb breakup and sensitivity studies of 11Be Coulomb breakup involving core excitation.
Using the Covariant Confined Quark Model, this paper calculates Standard Model predictions for the radiative and Dalitz decays of and investigates the potential contribution of the hypothetical ATOMKI X17 vector boson to the Dalitz channel.