Magic numbers" in nuclear physics identify specific numbers of protons or neutrons that lead to especially stable nuclei.

Researchers at Michigan State University’s Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) have made a fascinating discovery: a tiny ...

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In a groundbreaking study published in Physical Review Letters, physicists from ETH Zurich, in collaboration with teams from ...

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What happens when the smallest building blocks of matter refuse to play by the rules of traditional physics? For decades, ...

How an atomic nucleus can have two different shapes with only slightly different energy levels by Eric Gedenk, Michigan State University Facility for Rare Isotope Beams ...

This is consistent with Rutherford’s model of a small nucleus surrounded by what is effectively mostly just empty space.

An international research collaboration has overturned the long-standing belief that the atomic nucleus of lead-208 is perfectly spherical. The discovery challenges fundamental assumptions about ...

An international research collaboration led by the University of Surrey’s Nuclear Physics Group has overturned the long-standing belief that the atomic nucleus of lead-208 (²⁰⁸Pb) is perfectly ...

Together with new calculations of the structure of atomic nuclei, theoretical physicists from the Technical University of Darmstadt and Leibniz University Hannover were able to show that measurements ...