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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.
This paper proposes using normalized symmetric cumulants and Pearson coefficients derived from ultracentral Ne+Ne collisions at the LHC, combined with Brink model calculations and hydrodynamic simulations, to distinguish between competing Ne cluster configurations (5 versus +O) and probe nuclear structure transitions.
To address systematic calibration discrepancies caused by resistive crosstalk and laser instability in Phase-III, the BeEST experiment's Phase-IV introduces redesigned STJ sensor arrays with individual ground wires and a more stable UV laser, successfully eliminating artifacts while maintaining high energy resolution for future BSM physics searches.
The paper conjectures a remarkable correlation among the first-row elements of the lepton mixing matrix, , which remains consistent with unitarity limits and is currently supported by JUNO and Daya Bay precision measurements at nearly the confidence level.
This paper presents an extension of the MadGraph5_aMC@NLO framework that enables automated leading-order calculations for S-wave quarkonium and leptonium production within NRQCD and NRQED formalisms, offering seamless integration with Beyond the Standard Model scenarios and highlighting the necessity of careful theoretical analysis beyond simple velocity-scaling rules.
This study employs ab initio many-body methods (IMSRG and CC) alongside RPA to calculate isoscalar monopole sum rules in finite nuclei, demonstrating strong agreement between approaches and deriving nuclear matter incompressibility values consistent with phenomenological ranges.
This study demonstrates that a prototype Electron-Ion Collider Zero-Degree Calorimeter, after being irradiated to simulate one year of full-luminosity operation, can be successfully calibrated on a channel-by-channel basis using cosmic-ray data, maintaining a sufficient signal-to-noise ratio despite significant and non-uniform radiation damage to its SiPMs.
Using dijet-hadron correlations in lead-lead and proton-proton collisions at 5.02 TeV, the CMS collaboration firmly established the existence of a jet diffusion wake—a depletion of particles opposite to the jet direction—with a statistical significance exceeding 5 standard deviations, providing new insights into quark-gluon plasma properties.
This paper employs an Effective Field Theory framework to derive a factorization formula for inclusive jet production in dense media, demonstrating that both the Landau-Pomeranchuk-Migdal effect and color decoherence are governed by a single dimensionless parameter and can be systematically incorporated into jet quenching phenomenology through multi-sub-jet operators.
This paper proposes a novel experimental search for dark photons at electron accelerators using inverse Compton scattering () with laser photons and a 3 GeV electron beam, demonstrating that this setup can probe unexplored regions of dark sector parameter space through photon counting techniques.
This paper reports the first measurement of meson production via the di-electron decay channel in 30 GeV proton-carbon and proton-copper interactions at J-PARC, yielding total cross sections of 2.0 mb and 10.3 mb respectively and establishing a mass-number dependence parameter of 0.99 that aligns with existing proton-proton data.