An international research collaboration led by the University of Surrey's Nuclear Physics Group has overturned the ...

A long-held belief involving lead-208 challenges past beliefs that the element’s atomic nucleus is a perfect sphere.

Atomic nuclei exhibit multiple energy scales simultaneously—ranging from hundreds down to fractions of a megaelectronvolt. A ...

An international research collaboration has overturned the long-standing belief that the atomic nucleus of lead-208 is perfectly spherical. The discovery challenges fundamental assumptions about ...

Three-nucleon force affects nuclear stability, impacting element formation and stellar evolution. The force increases energy ...

An international research collaboration led by the University of Surrey's Nuclear Physics Group has overturned the long-standing belief that the ...

Relying on leading-edge germanium detectors developed by researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National ...

Neutrinos are some of the most abundant particles in the universe, and they are everywhere. Every second, more than 6 ...

Ever since physicist Ernest Rutherford discovered the atomic nucleus in 1911, studying its structure and behavior has ...

The approach, called the Beryllium Electron capture in Superconducting Tunnel junctions experiment (BeEST) works because the ...

The strong force responsible for holding these quarks together is so powerful and operates at such tiny scales that ...