Colliding gold nuclei at various energies enables scientists to investigate phases of nuclear matter and their possible co-existence at a critical point. Scientists are aiming to establish if a ...

The annual Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting brings a wealth of scientific minds to the shores of Germany’s Lake Constance. Every summer at Lindau, dozens of Nobel Prize winners exchange ideas with ...

Magnetic fields play a pivotal role in quantum chromodynamics (QCD), the fundamental theory of strong interactions. Their presence induces significant modifications in the behaviour of quarks and ...

A new supercomputer has been deployed at the Jülich Supercomputing Center (JSC) in Germany. Called QPACE3, the new 447 Teraflop machine is named for “QCD Parallel Computing on the Cell.” QPACE3 is ...

Fragmentation functions are fundamental components in quantum chromodynamics (QCD), encapsulating the probability that a high-energy quark or gluon produces a specific hadron during the hadronisation ...

Quarks and antiquarks are the teeny, tiny building blocks with which all matter is built, binding together to form protons and neutrons in a process explained by quantum chromodynamics (QCD).

The life and death of a star can largely be described based on its mass. Below the Chandrasekhar limit—about 1.4 times the mass of the sun—a star will end its life as a white dwarf. Stars that weigh ...

In a new article, scientists present an analysis of a series of experiments and shed light on the nature of the phase transition after the Big Bang about 13.7 billion years ago. The building blocks of ...

Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) is universally accepted today as the theory of strong interactions. Nevertheless, many conceptual questions, like those concerning the properties of the quark gluon plasma ...

In this video, Fermilab scientist Andreas Kronfeld discusses the LatticeQCD project for Quantum Chromodynamics. As part of the Exascale Computing Project, LatticeQCD is increasing the precision of QCD ...