For the first time, physicists have developed a model that explains the origins of unusually stable magic nuclei based ...

Maria Goeppert Mayer was a physicist at Argonne who developed the nuclear shell model theory, a pivotal discovery that won her a Nobel Prize in 1963. This year marks the 75 th anniversary of the ...

Abstract: Nuclear science fundamentally explores the formation of protons and neutrons from elementary particles and the interactions between them. One successful model describing this is the nuclear ...

An international team of researchers has systematically measured the β-decay half-lives of 40 nuclei near calcium-54, providing key experimental data for understanding the structure of extremely ...

Researchers at CERN have made a great step forward in revealing how atomic nuclei behave after they mapped the edge of a mysterious ‘island of inversion’ where the standard rules of nuclear physics do ...

Pt. 1. From the discovery of the neutron to nuclear fission. The state of nuclear physics in 193l -- Discovery of the neutron -- Discovery of the positron and artificial radioactivity -- Radioactivity ...