For decades, scientists believed that lead-208 (²⁰⁸Pb), the heaviest known "doubly magic" nucleus, was perfectly spherical.

An international research collaboration led by the University of Surrey's Nuclear Physics Group has overturned the ...

A long-held belief involving lead-208 challenges past beliefs that the element’s atomic nucleus is a perfect sphere.

Ever since physicist Ernest Rutherford discovered the atomic nucleus in 1911, studying its structure and behavior has ...

Doubly magic nuclei are particularly stable against nuclear decay; 208 Pb is the heaviest known stable isotope of any element ...

T he 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 ...

An international research collaboration has overturned the long-standing belief that the atomic nucleus of lead-208 is perfectly spherical. The discovery challenges fundamental assumptions about ...

The Oak Ridge National Laboratory has developed a new method for predicting nuclear structures using the Frontier ...

The results confirmed the original anomaly, but thanks to new nuclear theory calculations from researchers at TU Darmstadt, ...

In the search for “dark forces”, physicists came across deformed nuclei. M. Door et al.: Probing new bosons and nuclear ...

A compact method of detecting neutrinos provides new tests of physics theories and could lead to new reactor-monitoring methods.

The approach, called the Beryllium Electron capture in Superconducting Tunnel junctions experiment (BeEST) works because the ...