In a study published in Physical Review Letters, scientists at GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung have discovered ...

Richard Feynman, a famous theoretical physicist who won the Nobel Prize, said that if he could pass on only one piece of ...

While gluons are responsible for generating most of the visible mass in the universe, their role inside nuclei remains poorly ...

A typical neutron star has a mass a few times the mass of the sun, compressed into a region only a dozen kilometers across. ... Here, neutrons, protons and some electrons roam freely.

In the world of nuclear physics, protons often take the spotlight. But now, for the first time, the neutron has stepped into it. A recent experiment using the U.S. Department of Energy’s ...

There are striking similarities between how elementary particles come together to form atoms, molecules and eventually ...

A schematic diagram of proton and neutron distributions for mirror nuclei argon-31 and aluminum-31. Left side is the weakly bound proton-rich nucleus argon-31, which is predicted to exhibit a ...

The atomic nucleus is made up of protons and neutrons, particles that exist through the interaction of quarks bonded by gluons. It would seem, therefore, that it should not be difficult to ...

In 1949, Goeppert Mayer and Jensen developed the so-called shell model of the nucleus.Protons and neutrons occupy particular orbits, analogous to electrons, but they also have a property called spin – ...