BEIJING -- Chinese researchers have synthesized two new nucleus isotopes that contain 84 neutrons and 82 neutrons, according to a recent research article published in the journal Physical Review ...

Researchers from the Institute of Modern Physics (IMP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and their collaborators have ...

"Our method can achieve higher precision for isotopes that have been challenging ... of the re-determined mass values for the reference nuclides with (a) and without (b) the new technology.

The neutron separation energy tells how much energy is required to remove one neutron from the nucleus of a given isotopes. "It gives information on the structure of the nucleus and is an ...

For example, that oxygen’s heaviest particle-bound isotope is oxygen-24, with 16 bound neutrons. Beyond that 16, the nucleus becomes far too unstable. But we haven’t yet been able to make full ...

Louis. Finding a nucleus as far beyond the drip line as nitrogen-9 — five protons beyond — was surprising even for Charity’s team. Until now, scientists had only ever found isotopes up to ...

The relative charge of a nucleus is the same as its proton (atomic) number. Key fact: isotopes are forms of an element that have the same number of protons but different numbers of neutrons.