A team of scientists set out to probe some of the heaviest elements in the periodic table using an advanced form of laser spectroscopy.
“A perennial question in nuclear physics is to ask what happens at the extremes of neutron and proton numbers and where the periodic table may end,” Professor Bradley Cheal, one of the researchers behind the study explained.Their goal is to investigate the limits of the periodic table of chemical elements. How far can the periodic table go and will we ever synthesize the last element?, the team provided insight into the structures of the atomic nuclei of fermium and nobelium .
The international team behind the new study set out to probe some of these elements to better understand them. They used laser spectroscopy to measure the nuclear radius of several isotopes of nobelium and fermium.
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