Physicists have solved a long-standing puzzle about mercury’s nuclear fission by using a five-dimensional model that ...

In the case of very heavy nuclei, such as uranium or plutonium, this asymmetry is well documented. But in lighter, neutron-deficient nuclei – those with fewer neutrons than their stable counterparts – ...

A five-dimensional (5D) Langevin approach developed by an international team of researchers, including members from Science Tokyo, accurately reproduces complex fission fragment distributions and ...

This could open up newer possibilities in making superheavy elements in the lab and understanding nuclear stability at higher atomic numbers. Superheavy elements are elements with a large number of ...

The experiments confirmed that gold nuclei maintain a consistent, almost spherical shape. In contrast, uranium nuclei displayed a more dynamic, elongated form, resembling a deflated American football.

According to Litvinov, the results should aid in our understanding of the nuclear forces and nuclear astrophysics, where the evolution of shell closures can dramatically affect stellar nucleosynthesis ...

As the temperature of the material decreases, heavier nuclei are produced from lighter nuclei by a sequence of neutron captures and weak interaction processes. However, different to the rapid neutron ...

It is this fusion of lighter nuclei into helium that will power the hydrogen bomb. The Sun Does It. Scientists have long known that a fusion reaction takes place in the sun.

Superheavy elements are those elements with a large number of protons in their nucleus. Elements with more than 92 protons are unstable; they decay to lighter nuclei with a characteristic half ...

Fusion reactors come in all shapes and sizes, but can mostly be separated into three groups, defined by how they contain the super-hot plasma needed to combine lighter nuclei into heavier ones.