The nature of the neutrino's mass is no small matter. It is directly connected with major questions in nuclear physics, ...

In a study published in Physical Review Letters, scientists at GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung have discovered ...

IonQ Inc. (NYSE: IONQ) is one of the best AI stocks to buy according to hedge funds. On June 25, IonQ made headlines with a ...

IonQ (NYSE: IONQ), a leading commercial quantum computing and networking company, today announced the first known simulation using a quantum computer of a process called "neutrinoless double-beta ...

In nature, beta decay is a common way for an unstable nucleus to decay. It can happen in one of two forms depending on whether a nucleus has too many neutrons or too many protons.

One example is two-neutrino double-beta decay. This is a transition inside a nucleus where two neutrons simultaneously undergo beta decay. In other words, two neutrons decay to two protons by emitting ...

Radioactive decay is the strange and almost mystical ability for one element to naturally and spontaneously transmute into another. In the process, those elements tend to emit deadly forms of ...

But thanks to neutrons ... The isotope of lutetium-149 decays into ytterbium-148, which is also radioactive but decays in the more traditional beta decay, by emitting a positron ...

If new physics were at play, it could mean the neutrons would decay by some other means (what physicists call “channels”) besides beta decay, Greene told Gizmodo in a phone call, yielding ...

When outside the nucleus, neutron decay doesn't take long: prior work estimated a free neutron's half-life at about fifteen minutes, give or take a few tens of seconds between the high-end and low ...