At 11:30 one night in May 2024, a graduate student, Chuankun Zhang, saw a signal that physicists have sought for 50 years. As a peak rose from the static on his monitor at the research institute JILA ...

The study of octupole correlations and deformations has emerged as a pivotal theme in nuclear physics, shedding light on the intricate interplay between reflection-asymmetric forces and collective ...

The Energy Department is the Wrong Place to Manage Our Nuclear Stockpile Introduction Nuclear deterrence is once again central to U.S. national security. The relative calm of the post-Cold War world ...

For the first lecture in the Fall Physics Colloquium Series, Chuankun Zhang, a graduate student from the University of Colorado Boulder's physics department and a researcher at JILA, delivered an ...