March 25, 2024

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Not-Quite “Magic” Oxygen-28 Observed for the First Time

An almost-bound isotope of oxygen undergoes four-neutron decay that challenges theory.

March 22, 2024

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Entanglement Entropies of Nuclear Systems Grow as the Volume of those Systems

Quantum entanglement changes in atomic nuclei in ways that differ from other systems.

March 18, 2024

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Teasing Strange Matter from Ordinary

New insights reveal details of how strange matter forms.

March 15, 2024

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Searching for the Decay of Nature’s Rarest Isotope: Tantalum-180m

The first results from the MAJORANA experiment dramatically improve current limits on this rare isotope’s decay.

March 13, 2024

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Measuring the Thickness of the Neutron Skin with Ultra-Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions

Researchers determined the neutron skin of lead-208 from experimental data collected in lead-lead collisions at the CERN Large Hadron Collider.

March 8, 2024

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Statisticians and Physicists Team Up to Bring a Machine Learning Approach to Mining of Nuclear Data

Bayesian statistical methods help improve the predictability of complex computational models in experimentally unknown research.

March 4, 2024

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The “Nested Doll” Nucleus Nitrogen-9 Stretches the Definition of a Nucleus to the Limit

Nitrogen-9 has only two neutrons to its seven protons and decays to an alpha particle by emitting five of its protons in stages.

February 26, 2024

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Novel Theory-Based Evaluation Gives a Clearer Picture of Fusion in the Sun

Theoretical calculations and experimental data combine to reduce uncertainty in a key reaction rate in modelling high-energy solar neutrinos.

February 22, 2024

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Physicists Remotely Sense Radioactive Decay to Probe Fundamental Forces and Particles

The Project 8 and He6-CRES collaborations use a new technique to set an upper limit on neutrino mass and prepare to test the nature of the weak force.

February 14, 2024

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Scientists Locate the Missing Mass Inside the Proton

Nuclear physicists have found the location of matter inside the proton that comes from the strong force - a fundamental force that holds protons together.