Tag Archive for 'Strong interaction'

An illustration of the strong interaction in the proton-deuteron system produced in proton-proton collisions at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider. Image credit: ALICE / CERN.

CERN Physicists Explore Strong Interaction of Three-Body Systems

Sep 30, 2024 by News Staff

Three-body nuclear systems are key to many aspects of modern nuclear physics, such as understanding the equation of state of high-density nuclear matter...

An artist’s impression of the interaction between Omega (Ω) hyperon (left) and a proton (right). Image credit: Daniel Dominguez.

CERN Physicists Study Strong Interaction between Omega Hyperons and Protons

Dec 24, 2020 by News Staff

Physicists from the ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) Collaboration at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have developed a new technique that opens...

Physicists Probe Core of Strong Nuclear Interaction between Protons and Neutrons

Feb 27, 2020 by News Staff

The strong force is one of the four fundamental forces of nature, which also include gravity, electromagnetism and the weak nuclear force. The strong force...

An electron (green) hits a proton in a nucleus, creating a pion (green-skinned particle) and transforming the proton into a neutron. Image credit: Joanna Griffin / Jefferson Lab.

CERN Physicists Measure Polarizability of Pion

Feb 16, 2015 by News Staff

Scientists from CERN’s COMPASS collaboration have made the most precise measurement ever of the polarizability of pion – the fundamental low-energy...

LHCb coil moving. Image credit: © CERN, 2003.

CERN Physicists Discover New Subatomic Particle

Oct 12, 2014 by News Staff

According to scientists from CERN’s LHCb experiment, the discovery of a new type of meson, named Ds3*(2860)ˉ, will transform our understanding of...