According to the Standard Model of particle physics, free neutrons undergo a process called beta decay that transforms a neutron into a proton, an electron and an antineutrino. To measure the neutrons ...

Have you ever wondered how long it took our sun to form in its stellar nursery? An international collaboration of scientists ...

However, the situation is different for free neutrons: They decay – after about fifteen minutes, on average. Strangely enough, however, different contradictory results have been obtained for ...

The radiation emitted from unstable nuclei is called ionising radiation because as it passes through matter it can dislodge outer electrons from atoms causing them to become ions. An unstable ...

An international team of researchers has uncovered evidence that astrophysics models of massive stars and supernovae are ...

The measured bound-state beta decay half-life is essential to analyze ... However, other nuclear reactions are also important including the neutron capture rate on 205 Pb for which an experiment ...