Hyperfine splitting is a familiar phenomenon in atomic physics in which magnetic interactions between the nucleus and the electrons split the electronic energy levels into sublevels. Eberhard Widmann ...

A huge discrepancy between the observed hyperfine splitting in highly-ionized bismuth-209 atoms and the expected value could be a calculation error rather than ...

These days, everybody learns in grade school that an atom looks a bit like a little solar system, with a positively charged nucleus orbited by negatively charged electrons. Hydrogen is the simplest ...

NEWPORT NEWS, VA – While it’s commonplace for many scientists to collaborate on nuclear physics experiments at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, it’s ...

Scientists are one step closer to answering the question of why matter exists and illuminating the mysteries of the Big Bang and the birth of the universe. Swansea University scientists working at ...