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Understanding the properties of strong interaction matter under extreme conditions of temperature and baryon density is a central objective of modern nuclear physics. While the phase structure of QCD at vanishing baryo-chemical potential is constrained by lattice QCD calculations and ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collision experiments at CERN and RHIC, its behaviour at higher net-baryon densities serves as an increasingly active area of experimental and theoretical study. [...]

Chromatin organization, through the assembly of DNA with histones and the folding of nucleosome chains, regulates DNA accessibility for transcription, DNA replication and repair. Although models derived from in vitro studies have proposed distinct nucleosome chain geometries, the organization of chromatin within the crowded cell nucleus remains elusive. [...]