A weak proton emission following beta decay constrains the formation of elements in stellar nova explosions and determines their peak temperature.
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Innovative FRIB Liquid-Lithium Charge Stripper Boosts Accelerator Performance
The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams has demonstrated an innovative liquid-lithium charge stripper to accelerate unprecedentedly high-power heavy-ion beams.
UCI chemists receive $25 million in Department of Energy funding
Researchers will explore new technologies for energy conversion, carbon capture and nuclear power
Nuclear Cauldrons: Studying Star Burning with Radioactive and Neutron Beams
Using Earth-based particle accelerators, scientists measure the reactions that take place in stars to produce carbon.
Tracking Jets in Hot Quark Soup Reveals a Mechanism of ‘Quenching’
The results may offer insight into the quark-gluon plasma—the hot mix of fundamental nuclear-matter building blocks that filled the early universe.
UCI Podcast: Solutions That Scale
James Bullock discusses multidisciplinary organization working to counter the impacts of climate change
Addressing climate change: plants instead of plants?
Rather than an industrial solution to excess atmospheric carbon dioxide, a retired UCI physicist looks to nature
'Shining' Light on the Inner Details and Breakup of Deuterons
Photon-deuteron collisions offer insight into the gluons that bind the building blocks of matter—and what it takes to break protons and neutrons apart.
Troubled waters
Two Ph.D. students jump into action to study how oil spills affect critical ocean microorganisms
