Researchers have long been hunting for a way to make the elusive elements more stable so they can be better studied.

Scientists have discovered a new way of creating superheavy elements by firing supercharged ion beams at dense atoms. The team believes this method could potentially help synthesize the hypothetical ...

A cyclotron is a type of particle accelerator that moves protons, one kind of charged particle comprising atoms, along a spiral path to strike a target. What does it do? Particle/proton accelerators ...

Photo: Four-inch copper-encased cyclotron, one of Ernest Lawrence's ealiest models When Ernest Orlando Lawrence (1901-1958) got his PhD in physics, the hottest topic was bombarding the atom's ...

Emphasis is given to the advances developed over the past few years. The publication, which also describes the legal matters related to the use of the targetry methods, will appeal to scientists and ...

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First, you have to cool them to very near absolute zero, and “optically trap” them using lasers. Then, you spin the resulting ...

1.N. Sakamoto, N. Fukunishi, M. Kase, K. Suda, K. Sekiguchi.: "Acceleration of Polarized Deuteron Beams with RIBF Cyclotrons" Proc. 21 st International Conference on ...

Scientists have found a way to create superheavy elements, leading to groundbreaking possibilities in chemistry.

But fusing a titanium beam with plutonium to create livermorium is just a test run for much bigger (or rather, heavier) ...

Since the launch of the Large Hadron Collider, there has been ongoing research there into Higgs bosons and a search for ...

Our theory and simulations show that strongly magnetized plasmas spontaneously generate coherent, linearly polarized radiation through the interplay between radiative cooling and the electron ...