According to the new proton and neutron nuclear picture described earlier, the structure of the nucleus will also be given a new interpretation. The role of the delocalized electrons detached from the ...

In this talk, I am going to discuss the beta-decay of nuclei in the north and south regions of 208 Pb nucleus [1-2] using large scale shell-model calculations. The β--decay properties, such as the log ...

Physicists Maria Goeppert Mayer and J. Hans D. Jensen develop a theory of the nucleus as composed of shells of protons and neutrons. It explains why nuclei with certain “magic numbers” of protons and ...

Institute of Nuclear Physics, National Center for Scientific Research Demokritos, Greece. [2] J. Leech, “Equilibrium of Sets of Particles on a Sphere ...

OAK RIDGE, Tenn., June 1, 2010 -- Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), the University of Tennessee (UT) and six collaborating universities have performed an ...

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Individual protons and neutrons in atomic nuclei turn out not to behave according to the predictions made by existing theoretical models. This surprising conclusion, reached by an international team ...

Physicists are uncovering the hidden rules that make certain atomic nuclei unusually stable, revealing how protons and neutrons arrange themselves in ‘magic’ configurations. New models now connect ...

Hybrid model A new description of nuclei combines the quark–gluon model of particle physics with the proton–neutron description of nuclear physics. In this artist’s impression, quarks are illustrated ...