Among the thousands of atomic nuclei studied to date, 'doubly magic' nuclei form a very small and exclusive club. Nuclear magic numbers were identified 1 by Maria Goeppert-Mayer in 1948 as being the ...

Tin, a material whose name is sometimes synonymous with "dull," has a secret side that's extraordinary, physicists say. Scientists have succeeded in creating a new type of tin atom with "magic" ...

Tin may seem like the most unassuming of elements, but new experiments are yielding surprising properties in extremely short-lived isotopes near tin-100's "doubly magic" nucleus. Experiments performed ...

The metal tin lacks the value and prestige of gold, silver and platinum, but to nuclear physicists, tin is magic. Physicists recently reported studies on the metal tin that add knowledge to a concept ...

OAK RIDGE, Tenn., June 1, 2010 -- Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), the University of Tennessee (UT) and six collaborating universities have performed an ...

Artemis Spyrou receives funding from the US National Science Foundation. Sean Liddick receives funding from the Department of Energy, Office of Science and the Department of Energy, National Nuclear ...

Scientists may have reached a new level of understanding when it comes to the question of how heavy metallic elements originated, thanks to an isotope of tin. By bombarding tin-132 with neutrons, ...

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Nuclei are complex and challenging quantum objects. In contrast to the structure of atoms, for which the fundamental interaction between the electrons and the nucleus — the electromagnetic force — is ...

(Nanowerk News) The metal tin lacks the value and prestige of gold, silver, and platinum – but to nuclear physicists, tin is magic. In the journal Nature ("The magic nature of 132Sn explored through ...