In terms of the Quasiparticle Model, a single particle travels through a sea of fermions, which include electrons, protons, or neutrons, and interacts persistently with its neighbours.

A mathematical equivalent of a microscope with variable resolution has shed light on why some atoms are exceptionally stable, a riddle that has persisted in nuclear physics for decades ...

In our three-dimensional space, elementary particles neatly filter into either bosons or fermions. But in lower dimensions, that distinction gets a bit murky.

For a mere moment after the Big Bang, no neutrons or protons are thought to have existed. These neutral and positively charged particles, respectively, make up the center of all atoms today. But ...

“The theoretical framework we developed explains how quasiparticles emerge in systems with an extremely heavy impurity, ...

At Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island, the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider has powered down for the last time, ...

For more than two decades, researchers at Brookhaven National Laboratory’s particle accelerator have recreated conditions ...

For the first time, physicists have developed a model that explains the origins of unusually stable magic nuclei based ...

Separated by an ocean and more than a decade, innovative experiments with 31 tin isotopes having either a surplus or shortage ...

Curious Kids is a series for children in which we ask experts to answer questions from kids. What is the smallest thing in the universe that actually exists? – Mimi, 12, Abeokuta, Nigeria To find an ...

HAVING had the opportunity of reading this interesting letter by Mr. Goudsmit and Mr. Uhlenbeck, I am glad to add a few words which may be regarded as an addition to my article on atomic theory and ...

THE Faraday Lecture to the Chemical Society was given at the Royal Institution on February 12 by Lord Rutherford. The title was “Radioactivity and Atomic Structure”; but Lord Rutherford, rightly, was ...