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Cutting-edge experiment with a beam of radioactive barium ions provides direct evidence of nuclear pear-shape deformation.
Using tools that enable nuclear physics research into the heart of matter, scientists created a material for applications from aerospace to solar panels.
Antiproton pairs generated in high-energy heavy-ion collisions interact with a strong attractive force.
Indirect method let scientists determine stellar reaction rates, providing detailed information about the universe.
The neutron skin of the nucleus calcium-48 is much thinner than previously thought.
Nuclear physicists colliding football- and sphere-shaped ions discover evidence supporting a paradigm shift in the birth of the quark-gluon plasma.
Discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass, garners the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Nuclear physics research with radioactive beams enhanced by high-efficiency charge-breeding techniques.
RHIC physicists discover key evidence for a long-debated phenomenon in particle collisions.
Novel experiments measure unusual thermonuclear fusion of hydrogen with a rare oxygen isotope.
First mixed matter/anti-matter probe aims to solve decade-old proton puzzle.
New electron spectroscopy technique may lead to an improved neutrino mass determination.
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