Artist’s impression of the decay of a 149Lu nucleus into a 148Yb nucleus and a proton. Credit: University of Jyväskylä A new atomic nucleus 149-Lutetium,…
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For the first time, physicists extracted the detailed “energy-dependent neutrino-argon interaction cross section,” a key value for studying how neutrinos change their flavor Physicists studying…
Theories were introduced as far back as the 1960s about the possible existence of superheavy elements. Their most long-lived nuclei could give rise to a…
The proton (red) has a radius of 0.84 femtometers (fm). Also shown in the figure are the three quarks that make up the proton and…
A duo of theorists proposes a new theory to explain both the surprisingly small mass of the Higgs boson and the puzzling symmetry properties of…
The team of academician GUO Guangcan of University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has made important progress…
Image representing new isotope magnesium-18. Credit: S. M. Wang/Fudan University and Facility for Rare Isotope Beams Spartans joined an international team to create an isotope…
This simulation shows two dense neutron stars colliding. The collision has formed a black hole orbited by a whirlpool of magnetized gas. Some matter emerges…
Mismatched partners are being cooled: A single beryllium ion (red, left) and a single highly charged argon ion (purple, right) are bombarded by lasers from…
An atom laser flowing from top to bottom makes a “caustic,” a refracted pattern like that often made by light, as it encounters an obstacle.…
A new study confirms that as atoms are chilled and squeezed to extremes, their ability to scatter light is suppressed. Credit: Christine Daniloff, MIT How…
Schematic view showing the principle of the experiment that made it possible to visualize the sigma-hole on a bromine (Br) atom in a molecule using…
BES-III detector at the Institute for High Energy Physics (IHEP) in Beijing. Credit: Institute for High Energy Physics (IHEP), Beijing An international research team with…
Spawned by the spins of electrons in magnetic materials, these tiny whirlpools behave like independent particles and could be the future of computing. Experiments with…
Artistic rendering of quarks in deuterium. Credit: Ran Shneor Quarks and Antiquarks at High Momentum Shake the Foundations of Visible Matter Jefferson Lab and Fermilab…
Experiments will give scientists a closer look at how exploding stars create world’s heaviest elements. How do the chemical elements, the building blocks of our…
The inherent delay between the emission of the two types of electron leads to a characteristic ellipse in the analyzed data. In principle, the position…
Using a groundbreaking new technique at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), an international collaboration led by NIST researchers has revealed previously unrecognized…
University of Chicago and German physicists propose new realm of ‘unnuclear physics.’ Even though neutrons love to partner with protons to make the nucleus of…