UPTON, NY -- If you want to unravel the secrets of proton spin, put a "twist" in your colliding proton beams. This technique, tried and perfected at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC)--a ...

UPTON, NY - Scientists hoping to unravel the mystery of proton spin at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC, http://www.bnl.gov/rhic/), a 2.4-mile-circumference ...

An analysis by physicists of colliding protons is tackling the mystery of where protons get their intrinsic property known as spin. Along with neutrons, protons are housed inside an atom's nucleus.

Calculating a proton's spin used to be an easy college assignment. In fact, Carl Gagliardi remembers answering that question when he was a physics graduate student in the 1970s. But the real answer ...

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Protons play a central role in energy production within cells. A team of researchers has discovered that their movement is influenced by electron spin, a quantum property. This interaction occurs in ...

Scientists seeking to explore the teeming microcosm of quarks and gluons inside protons and neutrons report new data delivered by particles of light. The light particles, or photons, come directly ...

AMES, Iowa – John Lajoie, surrounded in his office by Star Trek posters and a few space hero action figures, recently made the case for nuclear physics research and the multi-million-dollar ...

A new particle collider is set to be built at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in Long Island, New York. Particle colliders smash charged particles against one another at nearly the speed of light ...

If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. Learn more. It often goes unmentioned that protons, the positively charged matter particles at the center of atoms, are part ...

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have developed a non-invasive way to measure the "spin tune" of polarized protons at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider ...