556 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 paper presents a detailed description of the NEXT-100 detector's design, assembly, and radiopurity budget, alongside results from its commissioning run at the Laboratorio Subterráneo de Canfranc, which demonstrated stable operation and effective monitoring using alpha decays.
Using a high-statistics CsI(Tl) detector and a high-activity Sc source at Texas A&M University, this study employs a "missing-" technique to search for invisible decays in nuclear gamma cascades, thereby excluding specific regions of parameter space for light dark-sector particles such as axions, dark scalars, and dark photons in the 0.1–1 MeV mass range.
This paper investigates the properties of the Roper resonance and nucleon-to-Roper electromagnetic transition amplitudes by analyzing quark degrees of freedom at high momentum transfer and incorporating baryon-meson contributions to explain low-to-intermediate momentum transfer data.
This paper demonstrates that strong decays of hadrons significantly alter the yields and correlations of stable particles in a thermal hadron gas model, thereby substantially impacting measurements of net quantum number cumulants and balance functions that are crucial for identifying the QCD critical point and determining chemical susceptibilities.
This study utilizes the Jet AA Microscopic Transport Model to demonstrate that -clustering in nuclei enhances geometric compactness and radial observables like proton mean transverse momentum, as well as flow magnitudes at high participant numbers, thereby offering complementary probes for investigating nuclear structure in low-energy collisions at CSR and HIAF energies.
This study utilizes Monte-Carlo PACE4 simulations to model the interaction of 108–170 MeV 20Ne beams with an 181Ta target, concluding that while reaction mechanisms and cross-sections were analyzed, this specific interaction is not a promising route for producing clinically useful neutron-deficient radioisotopes for nuclear medicine.
This paper presents two key enhancements to the linear Boltzmann transport model—integrating medium interactions directly into vacuum parton showers and incorporating color flow information—to achieve a unified and accurate description of hadron and jet suppression in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions.
This paper presents the first observation of significant transverse momentum and pseudorapidity dependent flow vector fluctuations in p$-$Pb collisions at TeV, confirming collective flow in small collision systems and providing critical constraints for theoretical models of initial geometry.
This paper presents the first measurements of inclusive and multiplicity-dependent pseudorapidity densities of charged particles in proton-proton collisions at the record center-of-mass energy of TeV, revealing that particle production in high-multiplicity events follows a power-law scaling with energy and establishing a new reference for LHC physics.
This paper reports the measurement of production cross sections for several potential direct reaction products (Au and Tl) in Ne-induced reactions on a natural gold target at energies of 108–171 MeV, noting that while PACE4 successfully predicted some isotopes, it failed to account for the gold isotopes, and FLUKA significantly underpredicted all measured radionuclides.