University of Tennessee, Knoxville physicists and their colleagues have made critical measurements of the lifetime and decay energy of tellurium-104 (Te-104), an important step in answering a ...

Scientists refer to atomic nuclei as “quantum many-body systems” because they are formed by many particles (nucleons, which include neutrons and protons) that interact with each other in complex ways.

Tunnelling out Illustration of the alpha decay of tellurium-104 over the RIBF at RIKEN. (Courtesy: Robert Grzywacz/University of Tennessee) Physicists headed up by a team at the University of ...

There's nothing you can do to hurry radioactive decay, the textbooks will tell you, but New Scientist meets a physicist who begs to differ FOR ALL its eureka moments, science has taught us many ...