Nuclear fission -; when the nucleus of an atom splits in two, releasing energy -; may seem like a process that is fully ...

Nucleons, the particles that make up the nucleus of an atom, are fundamental to understanding the universe's building blocks.

ORNL-produced isotopes have a wide variety of applications. Heat from the decay of plutonium 238 powers the Perseverance ...

Understanding the origin of the mass of subatomic particles like protons and neutrons is a major challenge in modern physics.

It's a paper that's been more than four decades in the making. Published in Physical Review Accelerators and Beams, a study ...

like when two hydrogen atoms fuse to form one helium atom. Fission on the other hand occurs when a neutron collides with a ...

Out of the limelight, theoretical physicists continue to seek a mathematical model that can explain the universe's particles ...

Dark matter has always been one of the biggest mysteries in astrophysics. The "Dark Big Bang" theory may have the answer.

Particle accelerator scientists have made the measurements, crunched the numbers and consolidated the data on the performance ...

The latest addition to the computational arsenal of Jefferson Lab is an extraordinary machine with the admittedly ordinary ...

Florida State University graduate students Chris Esparza and Matthew Mestayer working on the Array for Nuclear Astrophysics ...

Even though each atom has roughly a whole number of atomic ... (Atoms have protons and neutrons in their nucleus, and surrounding that, they have their electrons arranged in orbitals., ...