Why do some elements decay in minutes, while others last billions of years? Certain "magic numbers" of nuclear particles may ...

THE successful manner in which the single-particle model of the atomic nucleus has accounted for many nuclear properties is well known to those who follow developments in nuclear physics. This model, ...

Last year, physicists cast doubt on our current understanding of the interplay between electrons and atomic nuclei, and are now upping the ante by proposing a solution to this so-called “hyperfine ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract To understand how collective motion can develop in the shell-model framework it is necessary to study configuration interaction. With this in ...

Physicists recently developed a new theoretical model to explain how the Pauli exclusion principle can be violated and how, under certain rare conditions, more than one electron can simultaneously ...