Physicists have discovered that silicon-22 reveals a new proton magic number offering critical insights into nuclear ...

In nuclear physics, "magic numbers" identify specific numbers of protons or neutrons that lead to especially stable nuclei. Recognizing these numbers helps scientists better understand the ...

Researchers from the Institute of Modern Physics (IMP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have precisely measured for the first time the mass of an extremely short-lived and neutron-deficient nucleus, ...

When a nucleus has a magic number of protons or neutrons, then the particular orbit is filled, and the nucleus is not very reactive, similar to the noble gases.

Radioactive decay is a fundamental process in nature by which an unstable atomic nucleus loses energy by radiation. Studying ...

Scientists have observed a brand-new and exotic atomic nucleus: aluminium-20. Unlike anything seen before, it decays through ...

During those very early moments of the universe, things were extraordinarily hot, and quark-gluon plasma behaves in strange ...

The center is still in use today - now owned and operated by Covenant Health and renamed the Thompson Proton Center - as the number of proton therapy centers has grown across the country to more ...