Learn more about Isotopes

An almost-bound isotope of oxygen undergoes four-neutron decay that challenges theory.

The first results from the MAJORANA experiment dramatically improve current limits on this rare isotope’s decay.

Bayesian statistical methods help improve the predictability of complex computational models in experimentally unknown research.

Nitrogen-9 has only two neutrons to its seven protons and decays to an alpha particle by emitting five of its protons in stages.

The Project 8 and He6-CRES collaborations use a new technique to set an upper limit on neutrino mass and prepare to test the nature of the weak force.

Forefront nuclear physics capabilities and machine-learning data analyses combine to generate new information on quantum energy levels in sulfur-38.

A newly discovered excited state in radioactive sodium-32 has an unusually long lifetime, and its shape dynamics could be the cause.

Scientists investigate neutrinoless double beta decay through neutrino mass and the nuclear structure of germanium-76.