Magic numbers make nickel nucleus stronger
Researchers made magic with nickel, but this was no coin trickCredit: © 2019 Bajo-kanna - with permission Researchers provide the ...
Tag: Nuclear Physics
Study: Glassy menagerie of particles in beach sands near Hiroshima is fallout debris
X-ray studies at Berkeley Lab provide evidence for source of exotic assortment of melt debrisCredit: Mario Wannier Mario Wannier, a ...
‘Fire streaks’ ever more real in the collisions of atomic nuclei and protons
Credit: Source: IFJ PAN, Dual Color Collisions of lead nuclei take place under extreme physical conditions. Their course can be ...
Radioactive carbon from nuclear bomb tests found in deep ocean trenches
Credit: US Department of Energy WASHINGTON--Radioactive carbon released into the atmosphere from 20th-century nuclear bomb tests has reached the deepest ...
Public dread of nuclear power limits its use
In the ongoing effort to decarbonize U.S. energy production, there is one energy source that often attracts great controversy. Nuclear ...
Nuclear ‘magic numbers’ collapse beyond the doubly magic nickel 78
Scientists from the RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Research and collaborators have used the center's heavy ion accelerator, the RI ...
Searching for lost WWII-era uranium cubes from Germany
University of Maryland researchers are piecing together what exactly happened to hundreds of cubes of uranium from a secretive and ...
Argonne helps provide platform for future advanced nuclear reactor
Credit: Image by GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy Pivotal technology will enable evaluation of many advanced reactor fuels and designs. For ...
Research explores behavior of quarks and gluons at Large Hadron Collider
Credit: Christophe Royon LAWRENCE -- A team of high-energy nuclear experimental particle physicists from the University of Kansas has earned ...
The search for nothing at all
What a never-before-seen radioactive decay could tell us about neutrinosCredit: John Eisele/Colorado State University Bill Fairbank is looking for...nothing. The ...
Dark matter detector observes rarest event ever recorded
Half-life of xenon-124 is one trillion times longer than age of universeCredit: XENON1T TROY, N.Y. -- How do you observe ...
CEBAF turns on the charm
Jefferson Lab's Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility has confirmed production of charm quarks following a recent upgrade NEWPORT NEWS, VA ...
Physicists improve understanding of heat and particle flow in the edge of a fusion device
Credit: Elle Starkman Physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have discovered valuable information ...
Ready, set, go: Scientists evaluate novel technique for firing up fusion-reaction fuel
Credit: Nick Rivera/Columbia University To capture and control on Earth the fusion reactions that drive the sun and stars, researchers ...