Less than a year after its opening, the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams produced five never-before-seen isotopes for observation, a success that researchers say highlights the discovery potential of the facility. The University of Notre Dame's Nuclear Science Laboratory director Dan Bardayan was interviewed for the American Physical Society News of the week about the discovery. He was quoted as saying “One of the fundamental observables of nuclear physics is whether a given nucleus exists or whether it simply falls apart into its constituents".
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Originally published by at isnap.nd.edu on February 19, 2024.