At the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, physicists shoot protons around a 17-mile track and smash them together at nearly the speed of light. It’s one of the most finely tuned scientific experiments ...
In heavy ion collisions (HICs), while inclusive observations have been a common approach, three-body coincident measurements involving one light charged particle (LCP) and two fission fragments (FFs) ...
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In the fall of 2022, a Princeton University graduate student named Carolina Figueiredo stumbled onto a massive coincidence. She ...