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

These findings confirmed that atomic nuclei can decay by losing individual protons, not just clusters like alpha particles.

For the first time in almost 30 years, the heaviest nucleus decaying via proton emission has been measured. The previous ...

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 ...

The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) at Michigan State University allows scientists to study the so-called drip line, the point at which no more neutrons can be added to an atomic nucleus.

"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.

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 four ...

Scientists from Massey University in New Zealand, the University of Mainz in Germany, Sorbonne University in France, and the Facility for Rare Isotope ... heaviest bound nucleus and the heaviest ...