News tagged with nuclear charge

End of the magic: Shell model for beryllium isotopes invalidated

A research group led by Professor Dr. Wilfried Nortershäuser has, for the first time, managed to measure the size of the charge distribution in the atomic nucleus of the highly exotic beryllium-12 isotope. ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Apr 05, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Argonne's CARIBU charge breeder breaks world record for efficiency

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory have pushed the limits of charge breeding and broken a long-standing world record for ionization efficiency of solids.

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 13, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers heat up gold to surprising effect: It gets harder not softer

Common sense tells us that when you heat something up it gets softer, but a team of researchers, led by University of Toronto chemistry and physics professor R.J. Dwayne Miller, has demonstrated the exact ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Jan 22, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 2