Theoretical calculations involving the strong force are complex. One aspect of this complexity arises because there are many ways to perform these calculations. Scientists refer to some of these as ...

After years of research and analysis, nuclear physicists at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility have discovered how something strange can come from the ordinary. The physicists have ...

As they probe deeper into the heart of the atom, discovering ever smaller and more mysterious particles and particles within particles, scientists have succeeded in bringing the once stable world of ...

Polarized proton containing spinning quarks and gluons (represented by right-handed and left-handed spirals). The negative Δg solutions (blue) are disfavored relative to the positive Δg solutions (red ...

February 5, 2025 (Wednesday) 4:00-5:00 p.m. Location: Small Hall 111 Speaker: Holly Szumila-Vance Host: Justin Stevens Title: Nucleons in nuclei as the roadmap across scales Abstract: Physicists seek ...

The Standard Model of particles and interactions is remarkably successful for a theory everyone knows is missing big pieces. It accounts for the everyday stuff we know like protons, neutrons, ...

At Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island, the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider has powered down for the last time, ...