Physicists know from previous experiments that what happens at the nuclear scale to protons and neutrons also affects their ...

An early-career physicist mathematically connects timelike and spacelike form factors, opening the door to further insights ...

Carnegie Mellon University's Professor Curtis Meyer and his research colleagues explore an uncharted world inside protons and ...

Around 13.7 billion years ago, something collapsed. It fell outward into the nothingness that stretched in every direction, ...

Holographic Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) is a theoretical framework that uses concepts from string theory and general relativity to study the strong interactions between quarks and gluons, the ...

Researchers have discovered that superconducting nanowire photon detectors (SNSPDs), originally designed for detecting ...

Located in Hamburg, Germany, this cutting-edge facility is home to the world’s largest and most powerful X-ray laser. Axion ...

Heavy-ion physics is a branch of nuclear physics that studies the behavior of nuclear matter under extreme conditions, such as those found in heavy-ion collisions. These collisions can create a ...

including the quarks and gluons that make up the protons and neutrons of nuclei. The EIC requires sensitive and precise detectors, and SNSPDs will be valuable tools for capturing and analyzing the ...