{"id":154427,"date":"2023-01-05T06:23:34","date_gmt":"2023-01-05T12:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/new-type-of-entanglement-lets-scientists-see-inside-nuclei"},"modified":"2023-01-05T06:23:34","modified_gmt":"2023-01-05T12:23:34","slug":"new-type-of-entanglement-lets-scientists-see-inside-nuclei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/new-type-of-entanglement-lets-scientists-see-inside-nuclei","title":{"rendered":"New type of entanglement lets scientists \u2018see\u2019 inside nuclei"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-type-of-entanglement-lets-scientists-see-inside-nuclei2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nuclear physicists have found a new way to use the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC)\u2014a particle collider at the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory\u2014to see the shape and details inside atomic nuclei. The method relies on particles of light that surround gold ions as they speed around the collider and a new type of quantum entanglement that\u2019s never been seen before.<\/p>\n<p>Through a series of quantum fluctuations, the particles of light (a.k.a. photons) interact with gluons\u2014gluelike particles that hold quarks together within the protons and neutrons of nuclei. Those interactions produce an intermediate particle that quickly decays into two differently charged \u201cpions\u201d (\u03c0). By measuring the velocity and angles at which these \u03c0<sup>+<\/sup> and \u03c0<sup>-<\/sup> particles strike RHIC\u2019s STAR detector, the scientists can backtrack to get crucial information about the photon\u2014and use that to map out the arrangement of gluons within the nucleus with higher precision than ever before.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis technique is similar to the way doctors use positron emission tomography (PET scans) to see what\u2019s happening inside the brain and other body parts,\u201d said former Brookhaven Lab physicist James Daniel Brandenburg, a member of the STAR collaboration who joined The Ohio State University as an assistant professor in January 2023. \u201cBut in this case, we\u2019re talking about mapping out features on the scale of <i>femtometers <\/i>\u2014quadrillionths of a meter\u2014the size of an individual proton.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nuclear physicists have found a new way to use the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC)\u2014a particle collider at the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory\u2014to see the shape and details inside atomic nuclei. The method relies on particles of light that surround gold ions as they speed around the collider and a new [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}