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Lead-208, a "doubly magic" nucleus, exhibits unexpected shape characteristics, challenging current nuclear models and offering insights into nuclear structure and cosmic element formation. doi.org/g85vw8
Lead-208, a "doubly magic" nucleus, exhibits unexpected shape characteristics, challenging current nuclear models and offering insights into nuclear structure and cosmic element formation. doi.org/g85vw8
The lead-208 nucleus, previously thought to be spherical, is now found to be slightly elongated. This discovery challenges existing nuclear models and may impact our understanding of heavy element formation. doi.org/g85vw8
A collaboration between Surrey experimentalists and Surrey theorists (and other people of both flavours from other places) resulted in an excellent paper on the low-lying excited states in lead-208 - a nucleus we thought had no surprises doi.org/10.1103…