Scientists use highenergy heavy ion collisions as a new tool to reveal subtleties of nuclear structure

Nov 06, 2024

Scientists have demonstrated a new way to use high-energy particle smashups at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC)—a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science user facility for nuclear physics research at DOE's Brookhaven National Laboratory—to reveal subtle details about the shapes of atomic nuclei.