WHEN U.S. businessmen contemplate the peacetime uses of atomic energy, the talk revolves around huge nuclear-power plants to generate electricity. But while the nation’s first large-scale ...
Measuring the size of atomic nuclei has sometimes been useful to probe aspects of nucleon-nucleon interaction and the bulk properties of nuclear matter. The charge radius of atomic nuclei, which can ...
A team of researchers affiliated with multiple institutions in Japan has developed a technique for tracing the diffusion of carbon isotopes using atomic-scale vibrational spectroscopy. In their paper ...