HeavyIon

Researchers have made notable advancements in vector meson spin physics, specifically concerning ϕ mesons in gold nuclei collisions. Their work, which has challenged existing models and provided new insights into the behavior of exotic quarks during hadronization, is a crucial development in high-energy nuclear spin physics.A team of researchers headed by Prof. Wang Qun at the University of Science and Technology of China, under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has achieved a breakthrough in the theoretical understanding…

Artist’s rendering showing the simulation of two merging neutron stars (left) and the emerging particle tracks that can be seen in a heavy-ion collision (right) that creates matter under similar conditions in the laboratory. Credit: Tim Dietrich, Arnaud Le Fevre, Kees Huyser; background: ESA/Hubble, Sloan Digital Sky SurveyCombining heavy-ion experiments, astrophysical observations, and nuclear theory.When a massive star explodes in a supernova, if it isn’t completely destroyed, it will leave behind either a black hole or…