Physicists have, for the first time ever, successfully compressed an unstable nucleus, Nickel 56. This nucleus is not found on Earth but is present when a star explodes at the end of its life ...

For nuclear physicists, ‘doubly magic’ describes atomic nuclei that have greater stability than their neighbors thanks to having shells that are full occupied by both protons and neutrons. Theoretical ...

Scientists have identified three distinct shapes in stable nickel-64, a stable isotope of nickel. These shapes appear as energy is added to the nucleus. The nucleus in the lowest-energy state is ...

The first direct evidence that the nickel-78 nucleus is doubly magic has been obtained by an international team of physicists working at the Radioactive Isotope Beam Factory (RIBF) in Japan. The ...

Two independent experiments have verified that the radioactive nucleus nickel-78 is “doubly magic”, as predicted by the nuclear shell model. The nucleus contains 28 protons and 50 neutrons, which ...

There is new theory for explaining one category of LENR (Low Energy Nuclear Reactions – what was called cold fusion.) results involving nickel as the active host; and in particular the Arata-Zhang ...

A new paper sheds light on the nature of atomic nuclei. Everything in the universe, from the largest galaxies down to individual atoms, is governed by four fundamental forces, which together describe ...

Theoretical physicists recently used Titan, America’s most powerful supercomputer, to compute the nuclear structure of nickel-78 and found that this neutron-rich nucleus is indeed doubly magic. For ...