Read article 'Fast fragmentation produces double firsts for exotic nuclei'
Studies of transition rates between excited states and ground states in these nuclei provide important information to test shell-model predictions.
Read article 'Polarized hyperons probe dynamics of quark spin'
Jefferson Laboratory researchers discuss two new models of spin transfer.
Read article 'NSCL discovers the heaviest known silicon isotope to date'
Researchers at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL) at Michigan State University have produced the heaviest silicon isotope ever observed.
Read article 'Heavy-ion workshop looks to the future'
Physicists meeting in Finland warm up for heavy-ion physics at the LHC.
Read article 'DIS 2007: physics at HERA and beyond'
A report from the latest workshop on deep-inelastic scattering.
Read article 'DØ and CDF find same new baryon'
After several years of independently gathering and analyzing data at Fermilab’s Tevatron, the DØ and CDF collaborations have reported the observation of the same new baryon within days of each othe...
Read article 'Symmetry breaking on a supercomputer'
The Japan Lattice QCD Collaboration has used numerical simulations to reproduce spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking (SCSB) in quantum chromodynamics (QCD).
Read article 'Theory ties strings round jet suppression'
The properties of quark–gluon plasma (QGP), where the quarks and gluons are no longer confined within hadrons, lead to intriguing effects that have already been studied in heavy-ion collisions at CE...
Read article 'FAIR builds future for ion and antiproton research'
Construction should begin later this year on the new Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research in Darmstadt, and the first experiments could start up in 2012.
Read article 'US looks to new rare-isotope science facility'
A new heavy-ion linear accelerator based in the US would provide the opportunity to tackle directly the current challenges arising from investigations of nuclear science.
