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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 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.
This paper presents a comprehensive measurement of photon beam asymmetries, total, and differential cross sections for photoproduction off the proton up to 2.32 GeV, providing new constraints for amplitude decomposition and suggesting a potentially larger coupling of the -nucleon system to the resonance.
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.
This paper proposes that the rapid four-day cooling of the neutron star MAXI J1752$-$457 following a superburst provides the first evidence of a nuclear Urca process, where enhanced neutrino emission from electron capture and decay cycles in the star's ocean dominates the thermal evolution.
Using the antisymmetrized molecular dynamics model, this study constrains the nuclear symmetry energy at subsaturation densities (0.2 to 0.57) by analyzing the electric dipole polarizability and neutron skin thickness of , favoring effective interaction parameters of MeV and MeV.
This paper analyzes systematic errors arising from higher-twist contamination and kinematic effects in extracting the leading-twist structure function from inclusive DIS on a tensor-polarized deuteron, comparing two target polarization directions to determine that while both options yield comparable errors at Jefferson Lab 12 GeV kinematics, the momentum transfer direction is preferred at higher values.
This paper provides a first-principles explanation for the origin of nuclear magic numbers and pseudospin symmetry by demonstrating how a transition from spin to pseudospin symmetry naturally emerges as the momentum resolution of realistic nuclear forces decreases.
This study evaluates the feasibility of spallation-driven transmutation for six long-lived fission products using proton accelerators with lead or depleted uranium targets, finding that while technetium, iodine, and selenium are promising candidates for effective transmutation, zirconium and cesium remain inefficient and costly to treat.
This paper demonstrates that two complementary models of nucleon structure yield consistent predictions for light-front transverse charge and magnetisation densities, revealing distinct flavour-dependent quark radii, the dominant magnetic activity of valence quarks due to orbital angular momentum, and a characteristic transverse charge displacement in polarised nucleons.
Using ab initio nuclear lattice effective field theory with Bayesian uncertainty quantification, this study reveals that the ground states of H and H are characterized by valence neutrons forming compact dineutron pairs that predominantly organize into symmetric dineutron-dineutron configurations, thereby providing crucial structural insights into multi-neutron correlations and the nature of four-neutron clusters.