
Experiments revisit the quark-gluon soup
The main goal of this research is to explore the transition from ordinary hadronic matter to quark-gluon plasma - matter as it is thought to have existed at the birth of the universe.
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The main goal of this research is to explore the transition from ordinary hadronic matter to quark-gluon plasma - matter as it is thought to have existed at the birth of the universe.
According to our increasing understanding of quark physics, more kinds of particle should exist than are currently known. New experiments at the Jefferson Laboratory are setting out to search for th...
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...
New ideas for radioactive beam experiments, ranging from nuclear physics to low-temperature physics and supernovae, were on the agenda at a CERN workshop in March. Juha Äystöreports.
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...
In 1967, helped by Massachusetts congressman William H Bates, who was then on the US Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, MIT acquired a site for a new electron accelerator, which is still going strong. ...
The Hadron Production Experiment at the CERN PS proton synchrotron is a collaboration of institutes in Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, France, Italy, Russia, Spain and the UK as well as CERN and the JI...
Ever since Otto Stern surprised his colleagues in 1933 by announcing that the proton's magnetic moment was some three times as large as expected, physicists have puzzled over the origin of this effect...
After a decade of running, the results from CERN's research programme with high-energy nuclear beams provide tantalizing glimpses of mechanisms that shaped our universe.
An experiment at the French GANIL laboratory has recently discovered a new "doubly magic" nucleus - only the tenth such isotope known to science.