Stony Brook physicists unveil groundbreaking method for nuclear imaging

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Stony Brook University researchers have made a significant contribution to developing a new method to reveal details on the shapes of atomic nuclei at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) in the Brookhaven National Laboratory.

The method, which was recently published in Nature, involves colliding ions such as gold and uranium together after stripping them of their electrons, leaving them with just the protons and electrons of their nuclei. This allows physicists to see features of the shapes and sizes of the nuclei.