Japan’s Super-Kamiokande detector, a massive underground neutrino observatory, has completed its most sensitive search yet ...

Neutron detection remains at the forefront of experimental physics and engineering, with technologies continually evolving to address both scientific inquiry and practical safety applications. Recent ...

A research team is using astrophysical explosions to understand the mysterious forces at work in some of the smallest ...

The detection of neutrons and the utilisation of scintillation techniques stand at the forefront of advances in nuclear science, security, and medical imaging. Neutrons, with their weak interaction ...

An experiment more than 10 years in the making has delivered its first glimpse of the hurricane of particles whirring inside subatomic particles called neutrons, laying the groundwork to solve a ...

Gold and other heavy elements are born in some of the universe’s most violent events—but scientists still struggle to understand the nuclear steps that create them. Now, nuclear physicists have ...

HOUSTON – It's no secret that radiation is a great danger to astronauts. Most of the research to date concerns the effects of galactic cosmic rays, but what happens to those particles when they pass ...

Astronomers analyzing the gravitational-wave event known as GW200105 report evidence that a black hole and neutron star ...

In a muon tomography detector, cosmic-ray muons interact with an object and strike scintillators that emit photons. Wavelength-shifting fibers transmit the photons to photodetectors that digitize the ...

In the world of nuclear physics, protons often take the spotlight. But now, for the first time, the neutron has stepped into it. A recent experiment using the U.S. Department of Energy’s Jefferson Lab ...

Neutron stars harbor some of the most extreme environments in the universe: their densities soar to several times those of ...

HOUSTON – It’s no secret that radiation is a great danger to astronauts. Most of the research to date concerns the effects of galactic cosmic rays, but what happens to those particles when they pass ...