It produces an alpha particle (or Helium-4 nucleus) and a neutron, and releases 17.6 megaelectron volt (MeV) of energy in the form of kinetic energy of the products (3.5 MeV to alpha particle and 14.1 ...

NUCLEAR THEORY OF STRUCTURE OF THE ATOM ... of one of the atoms will spontaneously disintegrate and expel a.n alpha or beta particle. A new element has been born. What causes these transformations?

What was thought of as a single particle about 1 × 10‾¹º m across ... A nucleus will regain stability by emitting alpha or beta particles and then ‘cool down’ by emitting gamma radiation.

The enigmatic Ξ (2030) particle, once thought to consist of three quarks, may actually be a molecular pentaquark – an exotic ...

The atomic nucleus is made up of protons and neutrons, particles that exist through the interaction of quarks bonded by ...

Researchers at the Institute of Modern Physics (IMP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have successfully synthesized a ...

Radioactive materials are elements that spontaneously break apart, or “decay,” into lighter elements over time. Radiation is ...

It’s the rarest particle decay ever discovered. Scientists have clinched the case for a special type of decay of subatomic particles called kaons. Further study of the rare decay could reveal a ...

When it comes to building particle accelerators the credo has always ... Walton sits in the small observation cabin and watches the produced alpha particles on a fluorescent screen.

The proposed structure can be leveraged to accumulate ... the targeted alpha therapy of prostate cancer using a different ...

It is usually not possible to look inside cloudy liquids, but researchers at the universities of Mainz and Düsseldorf have ...