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 ...

Based on nuclear mirror symmetry, theorists predicted that proton number 14 should also be a magic number in its mirror nucleus, silicon-22 (8 neutrons and 14 protons).

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.

One of ANSTO's advanced imaging instruments Dingo now delivers a rare fusion of simulation and radiobiology, becoming a launchpad for an innovative neutron therapy innovation.

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

Physicists from the Institute of Modern Physics (IMP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and their collaborators have reported the first observation and spectroscopy of aluminium-20, a ...

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 ...