From dark matter and dark energy, to neutrino oscillations and the lack of antimatter in the universe, there is growing evidence that the Standard Model is incomplete. Tests of Quantum Electrodynamics (QED) with few-electron systems offer a promising avenue for looking for new physics, as QED is the best understood quantum field theory and extremely precise predictions can be obtained for...
The shift in modern medicine toward early diagnosis and prevention demands higher sensitivity and specificity in Positron Emission Tomography (PET) imaging. Emerging long-axial PET scanners equipped with Time-of-Flight (TOF) technology offer promising solutions to meet these requirements. PET systems utilizing ultra-fast gamma-ray detection—enabled by the Cherenkov effect or by using short and...
For more than three decades, it has been known that studying astrophysically relevant nuclear reactions between stable nuclei requires high-intensity and high-resolution beams and extremely low-background environments, achievable only in underground accelerator laboratories. By suppressing cosmic ray–induced events by several orders of magnitude, these facilities enable direct measurements of...
The hyperon-nucleon interactions are fundamental information to describe many-body nucleon systems containing hyperons, such as hypernuclei and neutron stars. By extending the nuclear force to baryon-baryon interactions, we also can understand the nuclear force as the interaction between quark clusters, because new aspects of baryon-baryon interaction are expected to appear especially at short...
