News tagged with nuclear decay
Radioactive decay is key ingredient behind Earth's heat
Nearly half of the Earth's heat comes from the radioactive decay of materials inside, according to a large international research collaboration that includes a Kansas State University physicist.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 02, 2011 |
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It takes three to tango: Nuclear analysis needs the three-body force
(PhysOrg.com) -- The nucleus of an atom, like most everything else, is more complicated than we first thought. Just how much more complicated is the subject of a Petascale Early Science project led by Oak ...
Jul 13, 2011 |
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X-ray illumination of supernova ejecta
(PhysOrg.com) -- Supernovae are the explosive deaths of massive stars, cataclysms that disburse into space the chemical elements produced by nuclear reactions inside the progenitor stars. Understanding chemical ...
Jun 24, 2011 |
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Small particle means big research for international physics project
As part of a global physics project, a team of Kansas State University physics researchers is starting small.
Feb 17, 2011 |
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CUORE experiment gets to the 'heart' of the anti-matter
Marisa Pedretti, a post-doctoral researcher since January 2009 in the Experimental Nuclear Physics group of the Physics Division of the Physical and Life Sciences Directorate, was recently selected as the ...
Jan 11, 2011 |
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Glasgow scientists predict mass of new particle
(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of physicists from the University of Glasgow has predicted the mass of a new particle which would help explain one of the fundamental forces of the universe.
Jan 26, 2010 |
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More precise measurements of the W boson
(PhysOrg.com) -- "The W boson is one of the very few major building blocks of matter," Dmitri Denisov tells PhysOrg.com. "It is a member of a family of particles that is the most fundamental in nature. The W boson is res ...
Dec 21, 2009 |
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