ALICE detector finds new way to study strong nuclear force

Researchers of the ALICE experiment at CERN have found a new way to test the theory of the strong nuclear force. In Nature they will publish measurements of proton collisions in the LHC accelerator this week, where that force is directly visible.
The new results are also being observed with interest by astrophysicists working on so-called neutron stars. These are extremely compact objects, remnants of collapsed stars, of a few solar masses heavy within a sphere of about ten kilometers. With gravitational wave detectors, collisions of such neutron stars are regularly observed, another research field of Nikhef.

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