Scientists refer to atomic nuclei as "quantum many-body systems" because they are formed by many particles (nucleons, which include neutrons and protons) that interact with each other in complex ways.

University of Tennessee, Knoxville physicists and their colleagues have made critical measurements of the lifetime and decay ...

Researchers have found that titanium-48 changes from a shell model structure to an alpha-cluster structure depending on the distance from the center of the nucleus. The results upend the conventional ...

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In a random moment, all energy is lost. The unstable subject cannot help but decay, slowly but surely, letting go of particles to become stable. It loses itself to become balanced again. This is a ...

Two teams of nuclear physicists have carried out the most sensitive measurements yet of how an excited form of carbon-12 known as the Hoyle state breaks down into its three constituent alpha particles ...