For decades, scientists believed that lead-208, a "doubly magic" and highly stable atomic nucleus, was perfectly spherical.

In the case of lead-208—the heaviest stable isotope known so far—a team of researchers led by physicist Jack Henderson ...

For decades, scientists believed that lead-208 (²⁰⁸Pb), the heaviest known "doubly magic" nucleus, was perfectly spherical. New research, however, has shattered that assumption. An international team ...

Could this anomaly be the first evidence of a new "dark force" or is it due to properties of the atomic nucleus? Did atomic physicists enter nuclear physics through the back door by comparing the ...

Nuclear physics research is focused on understanding the matter composed ... how the different elements of the universe were formed, and how a nucleus is made up of individual protons and neutrons ...

Physics theories have also predicted the existence ... identified candidates for toroidal dipole excitations in the nucleus 58 Ni for the very first time. Their paper, published in Physical ...

Researchers have developed a new technique that predicts nuclear properties in record detail. The study revealed how the structure of a nucleus relates to the force that holds it together. This ...

There were a few problems with the model, however. For example, according to classical physics, the electrons orbiting the nucleus should lose energy until they spiral down into the center ...

An international research collaboration led by the University of Surrey's Nuclear Physics Group has overturned the long-standing belief that the atomic nucleus of lead-208 (²⁰⁸Pb) is ...

An international research collaboration led by the University of Surrey's Nuclear Physics Group has overturned the long-standing belief that the atomic nucleus of llead-208 (²⁰⁸Pb ...