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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 presents an exploratory study demonstrating how a proposed second interaction region at the Electron-Ion Collider, featuring enhanced forward acceptance, would enable the detection of intact light nuclei to map their spatial parton distributions through coherent diffractive processes.
This paper reports the measurement of near-threshold photoproduction cross sections from the J/-007 experiment at Jefferson Lab, which, when combined with electron decay data and analyzed via Holographic QCD, yields precise constraints on the proton's gluonic gravitational form factor that agree with lattice QCD calculations and support a spatial picture of gluon dominance at larger radii with confining inward pressure.
This study employs a stochastic approach within the extended quantum molecular dynamics model to demonstrate that the peak position and width of the giant dipole resonance in Pb are highly sensitive to the symmetry energy and in-medium nucleon-nucleon cross sections, thereby offering a pathway to constrain the nuclear equation of state and confirming that a significant reduction of free cross sections in the medium is necessary to accurately reproduce experimental data.
This paper presents the latest results from the CUORE experiment, which has achieved leading limits on neutrinoless double beta decay in Te, and outlines the prospects for the upcoming CUPID upgrade that will utilize Mo-enriched crystals and particle identification to significantly enhance sensitivity to the Inverted Hierarchy of neutrino masses.
This paper demonstrates that kaon-decay-at-rest (KDAR) neutrinos enable coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering measurements to extend beyond the strict coherent limit into the diffractive regime, offering a competitive and complementary method to electron scattering for precisely probing neutron skin thickness in various nuclei.
This paper presents a theoretical modeling of axion-like particle production and decay into photons in proton-proton and lead-lead collisions at 5.02 TeV and 13 TeV, utilizing Good-Walker eigenstate models to calculate cross-section dependencies on collision energy, ALP mass, and event numbers based on ATLAS light-by-light scattering data.
This paper presents the first evidence of medium response to hard probes in heavy ion collisions by observing significant modifications in the distributions of low transverse momentum hadrons recoiling against Z bosons in lead-lead collisions, consistent with theoretical predictions of a hydrodynamic wake generated by energy depletion in the quark-gluon plasma.
This study presents a direct in-chamber measurement method for 220Rn (thoron) emanation that minimizes transfer losses and achieves a fivefold sensitivity increase over conventional flowthrough setups, offering an effective tool for background control in rare-event physics experiments.
This paper advocates for the use of the kinematic variable over for two-photon correlation functions in femtoscopy, highlighting its growing experimental feasibility due to advancements in detector technology.
The paper demonstrates that hadronic nucleus-nucleus cross sections are insensitive to nucleon size when geometric inflation artifacts are corrected, thereby establishing them as robust probes for extracting neutron skin thickness and constraining nuclear symmetry energy.