Protons in neutron-rich nuclei have a higher average energy than previously thought, according to a new analysis of electron scattering data that was first collected in 2004. The research appears to ...

Instead, Sobczyk’s team has focussed on how the electron interacts with nuclei – which can then be generalized for all leptons. They calculated how a single electron interacts with a calcium-40 using ...

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 ...

The kaon–deuteron correlations are well described with an effective two-body model that incorporates both the Coulomb interaction and strong interaction between the kaon and the deuteron.

The protons and neutrons that build the nucleus of the atom frequently pair up. Now, a new high-precision experiment has found that these particles may pick different partners depending on how ...

This article was updated June 28 at 4:54 p.m. ET. Scientists have long wondered whether there is a limit to the number of protons and neutrons that can be clustered together to form the nucleus of ...

In order for nuclear stability to be achieved, neutron-proton ratio and total number of nucleons in the nucleus must be equal. When nuclear is more stable? As mass increases, the valley bends toward ...

The atomic nucleus is made up of protons and neutrons, particles that exist through the interaction of quarks bonded by ...

By Geoff Brumfiel. The proton seems to be 0.00000000000003 millimeters smaller than researchers previously thought, according to work published in the July 8 issue of Nature.. The difference is so ...

The finding could be put to use at a new facility opening in 2020 that might create new elements—that is, nuclei with more than 118 protons—in addition to new isotopes of the known elements ...