Nuclear physicists make new, high-precision measurement of the layer of neutrons that encompass the lead nucleus, revealing new information about neutron stars
A new theoretical model shows that alloying accelerator structures with oxygen provides a faster, better, cheaper path to predictable accelerator performance
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility is a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science national laboratory. Jefferson Lab's unique and exciting mission is to expand our knowledge of the universe by studying the basic building blocks of matter within the nucleus: subatomic particles known as quarks and gluons.
Physicists develop a universal function that suggests that proton-neutron pairs in the nucleus may explain why quarks inside nuclei have lower average momenta than predicted.
A new study has confirmed that increasing the number of neutrons as compared to protons in the atom’s nucleus also increases the average momentum of its protons.