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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 study utilizes the AMPT model to demonstrate that the elliptic flow of charged hadrons in 200 GeV d+Au collisions is primarily driven by early-stage partonic interactions rather than hadronic rescattering, successfully reproducing experimental trends and highlighting the significance of parton scattering mechanisms in asymmetric collision systems.
This paper investigates how magnetic fields in heavy ion collisions induce quarkonia spin alignment through both orbital wave function distortion and spin state mixing, finding that the spin contribution dominates phenomenologically while the subleading orbital effect offers a unique probe for studying quarkonium structural changes.
This paper describes the design and construction of the BUTTON-30, a 30-tonne hybrid detector installed 1.1 km underground at the Boulby Laboratory to evaluate the potential of simultaneous Cherenkov and scintillation light detection for neutrino interactions in a low-background environment.
The ReD experiment utilized a compact dual-phase argon Time Projection Chamber irradiated by neutrons to model-independently measure the ionization yield of argon for nuclear recoils between 2 and 10 keV, revealing higher yields at lower energies than previously observed and extending experimental coverage crucial for detecting low-mass Dark Matter.
This paper presents the first experimental measurement of the strong interaction scattering parameters for the and systems using femtoscopic correlation functions from Pb--Pb collisions at TeV recorded by ALICE, providing crucial benchmarks for low-energy chiral QCD dynamics.
This paper analyzes the missing-energy spectrum from monochromatic neutrino-C interactions measured by the JSNS collaboration using a relativistic distorted-wave approach with an improved spectral function, while discussing the roles of nuclear recoil, final-state interactions, and neutrino event generators in describing low-energy nuclear effects.
This paper summarizes the achievements of the MexNICA Collaboration, established in 2016 to coordinate Mexican participation in the MPD-NICA experiment at JINR, highlighting their contributions to the development of the miniBeBe trigger detector and advances in phenomenological and theoretical studies of the baryon-rich QCD phase diagram.
This paper presents experimental results validating the feasibility of a graphite cube moderator for creating a standing neutron target for inverse kinematics measurements, demonstrating strong agreement between measured and simulated neutron flux distributions for a full cube setup while highlighting discrepancies in a half-cube configuration to inform future proof-of-principle campaigns.
The PLASEN system at the Beijing Radioactive Ion-beam Facility has been fully commissioned, successfully utilizing an RFQ cooler-buncher to deliver high-quality bunched beams for high-resolution and high-sensitivity collinear resonance ionization spectroscopy of exotic nuclei.
This paper reviews the current status of nuclear physics in X-ray bursts by integrating new experimental and theoretical reaction rates to update the JINA REACLIB database and refine models of burst light curves and nuclear ash composition.