Investigation into the properties and structure of unstable nuclei far from stability is a key
avenue of research in modern nuclear physics. These efforts are motivated by the continual …

The 229Th nucleus has an isomeric state at an energy of about 8 eV above the ground state,
several orders of magnitude lower than typical nuclear excitation energies. This has inspired …

The borders of the periodic table of the elements and of the chart of nuclides are not set in
stone. The desire to explore the properties of atoms and their nuclei in a regime of very large …

A systematic global investigation of differential charge radii has been performed within the
CDFT framework for the first time. Theoretical results obtained with conventional covariant …

During the last decade, six new superheavy elements were added into the seventh period of
the periodic table, with the approval of their names and symbols. This milestone was …

The CERN-MEDICIS (MEDical Isotopes Collected from ISolde) facility has delivered its first
radioactive ion beam at CERN (Switzerland) in December 2017 to support the research and …

The interest to perform laser spectroscopy in the heaviest elements arises from the strong
impact of relativistic effects, electron correlations and quantum electrodynamics on their …

Abstract 225 Ac is a radio-isotope that can be linked to biological vector molecules to treat
certain distributed cancers using targeted alpha therapy. However, develo** 225 Ac …

The quantum-mechanical nuclear-shell structure determines the stability and limits of the
existence of the heaviest nuclides with large proton numbers Z≳ 100 (refs. 1, 2, 3). Shell …

Atomic cascades are ubiquitous in nature and they have been explored within very different
scenarios, from precision measurements to the modeling of astrophysical spectra, and up to …