Nucleus/Plasma

Mesons inside Nuclei(January 22, 2008)
A new calculation shows why carbon-14's halflife is so long, permitting archeologists to use for carbon dating

Mesons inside Nuclei(January 22, 2008)
A new calculation shows why carbon-14's halflife is so long, permitting archeologists to use for carbon dating

Helium-8(December 21, 2007)
A new experiement has measured the charge-radius of the He-8 isotope

Helium-8(December 21, 2007)
A new experiment has measured the charge-radius of the He-8 isotope

Cranked Nuclei(December 28, 2006)
A new experiment achieves nuclei with spins as high as 65 units.

BEC Magnetometer(July 17, 2006)
Bose-Einstein condensates can be used in producing a high-sensitivity, high-resolution magnetometer.

Z Pinch Machine(February 27, 2006)
A new temperature record was set recently at the Sandia's Z machine.

Dumbbell-Shaped Nucleus(January 19, 2006)
The beryllium-10 nucleus behaves a lot like a molecule: it can be thought of as two alpha particles held together by some extra neutrons.

Color Superconductivity(November 1, 2005)
A new form of superconductivity might exist at the heart of highly compressed stars.

Nuclides Galore(November 24, 2004)
A single nuclear collision experiment has produced more than 1400 nuclides.

Dust Crystal at 40,000 K(October 19, 2004)
Crystals of dust particles can form even at a temperature of 40,000 K.

The Helium-6 Nucleus(September 28, 2004)
The radius of the helium-6 nucleus has been determined for the first time with great accuracy.

Meson-Quark Model of the Nucleus(September 2, 2004)
A new nuclear model uses the best parts of the quark picture and meson picture of nuclear matter.

Criss-Crossing Laser Beams Zoom Electrons Along(December 22, 2003)
Crossing two high-intensity laser beams has some interesting effects that may help bring laser-based particle accelerators closer to practical use.

Quark Spin in the Proton(December 18, 2003)
Researchers have discovered the orientations of quark spin in a proton.

A New Twist on Spheromaks(June 12, 2003)
New experiments show that plasma spheromaks arise when a kink in a magnetic field twists into a corkscrew, and a puff of plasma breaks loose.

Pions Deform the Proton's Charge Cloud(September 16, 2002)
New experimental evidence suggests that pions, quark-antiquark pairs, may play a larger part in deforming a high-energy proton's cloud than do the proton's own quarks.

Laser-Driven Ion(August 26, 2002)
For the first time laser light has been used to produce, through plasma acceleration in a sample, a beam of energetic heavy ions, such as fluorine and carbon, at energies as high as 100 MeV.

Nuclei Go Through Phases(January 8, 2002)
Experimental evidence that a nucleus containing many neutrons and protons undergoes a change of phase--from a "liquid" to a "gas"--has been obtained for the first. time.

X-Ray Flash Fly Photography(October 31, 2001)
X-ray photographs of flies reveal the characteristics of energy bursts emitted by the exploding wires in an X-pinch machine.

Lighter than Air Plasma Bends Intense Electron Beam
A collaboration of physicists in California has shown that a rarified plasma, a million times less dense than air, can bend or "refract" an intense, high-energy electron beam that can ordinarily burn a hole through several millimeters of steel.

Gamma Ray Hologram (27 February, 2001)
A new procedure allows atomic-scale real-space gamma-ray holograms to be formed.

Two-Proton Decay in Ne-18 (26 December, 2000)
Researchers may have finally detected elusive dual-proton emission from an excited neon isotope, potentially providing new insights to the force that holds atomic nuclei together.

First Collisions at RHIC (June 15, 2000)
See one of the first collisions of gold ions at Brookhaven's new RHIC facility.

NEAR photographs Eros (February 17, 2000)
The Near Earth Asteroid Rendevous (NEAR) spacecraft is the first to be put into orbit around an asteroid.

New State of Nuclear Matter (February 9, 2000)
Evidence for a new state of nuclear matter comes from high energy collision experiments at CERN

Hot, Dense Nuclear Matter (February 8, 2000)
Striving to uncover clues about the early universe, scientists worldwide are smashing together heavy ions to produce hot and dense states of nuclear matter that may not have existed naturally since shortly after the Big Bang.

A Tabletop Alternative to Cyclotrons (November 15, 1999)
University of Michigan researchers have developed a method for using a tabletop laser to generate a beam of high-speed ions potentially useful for cancer therapy and electronics manufacturing.

Laser Light In, MeV Protons Out (November 11, 1999)
By shining an ultrashort laser pulse on a tiny spot, researchers can create intense streams of high-speed ions potentially useful for cancer therapy and electronics manufacturing.

Helium-6 and Di-neutrons (June 21, 1999)
Helium-6 nuclei harbor 2-neutron entities, and and can transfer them to Helium-4 nuclei during collsions.

Laser-Induced Fission (March 30, 1999)
Intense laser light can be used to produce nuclear fission and also created positrons.

Simulating a Solar Eruption (November 3, 1998)
Laboratory simulation of a solar eruption.

Low-Field MRI (October 16, 1998)
MRI can be performed at very low magnetic fields with good spatial resolution.

Gammasphere (October 12, 1998)
Nobelium-254--the heaviest nucleus ever studied.

Nuclear Shapes (February 25, 1998)
Some of the different shapes that a nucleus can exhibit.

Chart of Nuclides (February 25, 1998)
A chart showing the regions for stable and radioactive nuclei.

Some Radioactive Decays (February 25, 1998)
A diagram that depicts some of the radioactive decays that a nucleus can undergo.

Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (January 21, 1998)
An aerial view of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) being built at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, NY.

Neutrino Tomography of the Earth (January 5, 1998)
A proposed scheme for using neutrinos to measure radioactive deposits inside the Earth.

The Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (April 23, 1997)
Diagram of CEBAF, a new US accelerator facility aiming to probe the boundary between the tiny scale of the atomic nucleus and the even tinier scale of the quarks and gluons which make up individual particles in the nucleus.

Fusion at the National Ignition Facility (September 20, 1996)
A 3-D rendering of the National Ignition Facility, slated to carry out next-generation nuclear fusion experiments.