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The synthesis of two new isotopes, osmium-160 and tungsten-156, by scientists at the Institute of Modern Physics (IMP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and their collaborators has provided new insights into nuclear structure and raised the possibility that lead-164 could be a doubly magic nucleus with enhanced stability.
At the Radioactive Ion Beam Line in Lanzhou (RIBLL), China, a “black” environment was developed to search for a flimsy flash of light as proof of isomer depletion.
Uranium is a naturally radioactive element. It powers nuclear reactors and atomic bombs.
Physicists Just Found The Lightest Known Form of Uranium, And It Has Unique Behaviors MARA JOHNSON-GROH, LIVE SCIENCE 4 MAY 2021 Scientists have discovered a new type of uranium that is the lightest ever known. The discovery could reveal more about a weird alpha particle that gets ejected from certain radioactive elements as they decay. The newfound uranium, called uranium-214, is an isotope, or a variant of the element, with 30 more neutrons than protons, one fewer neutron than the next-lightest known uranium isotope. Because neutrons have mass, uranium-214 is much lighter than more ...
Study Shows Abnormal Enhancement of a-Particle Clustering in Uranium Isotopes Written by AZoMApr 19 2021 In nuclear physics research, the discovery of new isotopes with extreme proton/neutron numbers is always fascinating. The α-decay in the heavy nuclei region is one of the ubiquitous decay modes and has a crucial role in the search for new isotopes. The illustration of the enhanced α-particle preformation in 214, 216U deduced by the strong proton-neutron interaction. Image Credit: Zhiyuan Zhang. But even after nearly a century of analyzing α-decay, researchers are still unable to perfec...