Physicists Discover Brand-New Isotopes of Heavy Rare-Earth Elements

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Never-before-seen ratios of particles making up atomic nuclei have emerged in a landmark experiment involving the fragmentation of heavy elements.

Not all forms of an element are built alike. Each atomic nucleus consists of a number of subatomic particles known as nucleons – protons and neutrons. The number of protons is consistent across all forms of an element, and gives that element its atomic number. They placed these atoms in the FRIB, which uses a heavy-ion accelerator to fragment atomic nuclei. Beams of rare isotopes are fired at a target at velocities greater than half the speed of light. When they hit the target, these isotopes shatter into lighter isotopes of nuclei; physicists can then detect and study these isotopes.

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