When they absorb enough energy, they can decay & emit an alpha particle (2 protons & 2 neutrons). Credit: M. Barbui Scientists refer to atomic nuclei as "quantum many-body systems" because they are ...

In a study published in the journal of Nuclear Science and Techniques, researchers from Sun Yat-sen University have achieved a significant breakthrough in understanding the decay processes of ...

Alpha recoil: Conceptual drawing of the experiment, which detects the nuclear decay of individual helium nuclei by embedding radioactive atoms in a micron-sized object and measuring the object’s ...