Recent progress in two-proton radioactivity

L Zhou, SM Wang, DQ Fang, YG Ma - Nuclear Science and Techniques, 2022 - Springer
During the last few decades, rare isotope beam facilities have provided unique data for
studying the properties of nuclides located far from the beta-stability line. Such nuclei are …

Two-proton emission and related phenomena

M Pfützner, I Mukha, SM Wang - Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 2023 - Elsevier
One of characteristic phenomena for nuclei beyond the proton dripline is the simultaneous
emission of two protons (2p). The current status of our knowledge of this most recently …

Uneasy bedfellows: AI in the news, platform companies and the issue of journalistic autonomy

FM Simon - Digital journalism, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Platform companies play an important role in the production and distribution of news. This
article analyses this role and questions of control, dependence and autonomy in the light of …

Recent development of complex scaling method for many-body resonances and continua in light nuclei

T Myo, Y Kikuchi, H Masui, K Katō - Progress in Particle and Nuclear …, 2014 - Elsevier
The complex scaling method (CSM) is a useful similarity transformation of the Schrödinger
equation, in which bound-state spectra are not changed but continuum spectra are …

NSCL and FRIB at Michigan State University: Nuclear science at the limits of stability

A Gade, BM Sherrill - Physica Scripta, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL) at Michigan State
University (MSU) is a scientific user facility that offers beams of rare isotopes at a wide range …

Strong Evidence for and the Limits of Existence of Atomic Nuclei

RJ Charity, J Wylie, SM Wang, TB Webb, KW Brown… - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
The boundaries of the chart of nuclides contain exotic isotopes that possess extreme proton-
to-neutron asymmetries. Here we report on strong evidence of N 9, one of the most exotic …

First Observation of the Four-Proton Unbound Nucleus

Y **, CY Niu, KW Brown, ZH Li, H Hua, AK Anthony… - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
Mg 18 was observed, for the first time, by the invariant-mass reconstruction of O 14+ 4 p
events. The ground-state decay energy and width are ET= 4.865 (34) MeV and Γ= 115 (100) …

Beyond the proton drip line: Bayesian analysis of proton-emitting nuclei

L Neufcourt, Y Cao, S Giuliani, W Nazarewicz, E Olsen… - Physical Review C, 2020 - APS
Background: The limits of the nuclear landscape are determined by nuclear binding
energies. Beyond the proton drip lines, where the separation energy becomes negative …

Fermion pair dynamics in open quantum systems

SM Wang, W Nazarewicz - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
Three-body decay is a rare decay mode observed in a handful of unbound rare isotopes.
The angular and energy correlations between emitted nucleons are of particular interest, as …

Landscape of two-proton radioactivity

E Olsen, M Pfützner, N Birge, M Brown… - Physical Review Letters, 2013 - APS
Ground-state two-proton (2 p) radioactivity is a decay mode found in isotopes of elements
with even atomic numbers located beyond the two-proton drip line. So far, this exotic …