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New measurements at RHIC provide further insight into heavy-ion collisions at high energies.
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New measurements at RHIC provide further insight into heavy-ion collisions at high energies.
New measurements from the US Department of Energy's Jefferson Lab (JLab) in Virginia are challenging existing ideas on how quark-antiquark pairs are produced from "nothing" - that is, the vacuum.
Teams from France, Germany and Poland have recently observed two-proton radioactive decay from iron-45 nuclei. Bertram Blank explains how this opens up exciting new research avenues in nuclear physics...
Following the 2000 announcement by the CERN heavy-ion community of evidence for a new state of unbound quark-gluon matter, heavy-ion physicists have been eagerly awaiting results from Brookhaven's RHI...
With nuclear physics largely confined to a narrow band of stable isotopes, a new US machine aims to provide a wider nuclear perspective.
While plans to update the Beijing Electron-Positron Collider (BEPC) and the Beijing Spectro-meter (BESII) experiment go ahead, the BES experiment has completed its second highly successful run at t...
With quark-gluon calculations being extremely difficult, physicists have to use their ingenuity to get results. The most popular approach is to use powerful supercomputers to simulate a discrete sp...
Recent experiments at CERN using high-energy beams of nuclei reported evidence for a quark-gluon plasma. Interpreting such evidence is not straightforward, and this article underlines the physics m...
Understanding most of what happens in high-energy particle scattering should be easy, but it isn't. A recent international conference underlined a traditional dilemma.
Radioactive ion beams provide access to a variety of research, from basic nuclear physics to the life sciences. Thomas Nilsson looks at the varied radioactive ion beam research programme of CERN's vet...