The researchers had previously measured muonic helium-4 and, a few years ago, the atomic nucleus of muonic hydrogen and deuterium. Muonic helium-3: Twice as slimmed-down.

A research team has achieved a significant breakthrough in determining fundamental properties of atomic nuclei. The team conducted laser spectroscopy experiments on muonic helium-3. Muonic helium ...

Theoretical physics last week again proved that it has substance. The lightest element, hydrogen, has an atomic weight of 1.0078. The helium atom, next lightest in the table of elements, weighs 4. ...

1.97007 femtometer (quadrillionths of a meter): That's how unimaginably tiny the radius of the atomic nucleus of helium-3 is. This is the result of an experiment at PSI that has now been published ...

Novel calculations have enabled the study of nearly 700 isotopes between helium and iron, showing which nuclei can exist and which cannot. Scientists report how they simulated for the first time ...

Furthermore, high-precision measurements of tune-out wavelengths – where the net energy shift cancels – serve as sensitive probes of atomic polarizability and retardation effects, offering ...

For example, a helium atom has an atomic mass of 4, but an atomic number (or positive charge) of 2. Since electrons have almost no mass, it seemed that something besides the protons in the nucleus ...