The model successfully captures the unusual "double-humped" fragment mass distribution observed in mercury-180 and offers new insights into how nuclear shell effects influence fission dynamics ...

Paralleling the idea of electron shells in atomic physics, in 1949 scientists proposed the nuclear shell model: protons and neutrons sit in distinct nuclear shells, and additional energy input can ...

Physicists have solved a long-standing puzzle about mercury’s nuclear fission by using a five-dimensional model that reproduces the fragment patterns and kinetic energies of medium-mass isotopes ...

Findings in nuclear physics theory have received several Nobel Prizes (1975-nucleus vibrations and rotations, 1963-nuclear shell model, 1949-meson exchange model of nuclear forces). Despite these ...

This year marks the 75 th anniversary of the nuclear shell model, a theory pivotal to our understanding of the nuclei in atoms. It was developed by Nobel laureate, Maria Goeppert Mayer.

09/20/2024 By Amanda Vozzo Date: Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2024 Time: 4 to 5 p.m. Location: Ball Hall 214 Speaker: Peter Bender, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Applied Physics, University ...