{"id":613769,"date":"2019-05-01T13:00:01","date_gmt":"2019-05-01T17:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=4852a0eb62d77c30dedc409a701c24bc"},"modified":"2019-05-01T13:00:01","modified_gmt":"2019-05-01T17:00:01","slug":"nuclear-magic-numbers-collapse-beyond-the-doubly-magic-nickel-78","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=613769","title":{"rendered":"Nuclear &#8216;magic numbers&#8217; collapse beyond the doubly magic nickel 78"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists from the RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Research and collaborators have used the center&#8217;s heavy ion accelerator, the RI Beam Factory, to demonstrate that nickel-78, a neutron-rich &#8220;doubly magic&#8221; isotope of nickel with 28 protons and 50 neutrons, still maintains a spherical shape that makes it relatively stable despite the large imbalance in the number of protons and neutrons. They also discovered a surprise\u2014observations from the experiment suggest that nickel-78 may be the lightest nucleus with 50 neutrons to have a magic nature. Lighter isotones\u2014meaning nuclei with the same number of neutrons but different number of protons\u2014would inevitably be deformed, despite having the magic number of neutrons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists from the RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Research and collaborators have used the center&#8217;s heavy ion accelerator, the RI Beam Factory, to demonstrate that nickel-78, a neutron-rich &#8220;doubly magic&#8221; isotope of nickel with 28 protons &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3230,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-613769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3230"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=613769"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":613770,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613769\/revisions\/613770"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=613769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=613769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=613769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}