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Modified in medium

Nature Physics volume 19, pages 764–765 (2023)Cite this article

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The strong interaction is modified in the presence of nuclear matter. An experiment has now quantified with high precision and accuracy the reduction of the order parameter of the system’s chiral symmetry, which is partially restored.

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Fig. 1: A schematic diagram showing the in situ formation of a pionic atom.

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