{"id":191589,"date":"2024-06-21T20:25:19","date_gmt":"2024-06-22T01:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/ghost-particles-could-be-the-secret-behind-the-heaviest-elements"},"modified":"2024-06-21T20:25:19","modified_gmt":"2024-06-22T01:25:19","slug":"ghost-particles-could-be-the-secret-behind-the-heaviest-elements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/ghost-particles-could-be-the-secret-behind-the-heaviest-elements","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Ghost Particles\u2019 Could Be The Secret Behind The Heaviest Elements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ghost-particles-could-be-the-secret-behind-the-heaviest-elements2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Big atoms <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/neutron-star-collisions-may-not-be-making-much-gold-after-all\">demand big energy<\/a> to construct. A new model of quantum interactions now suggests <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/most-precise-measure-ever-brings-us-closer-to-knowing-the-ghost-particles-true-mass\">some of the lightest particles<\/a> in the Universe might play a critical role in how at least some heavy elements form.<\/p>\n<p>Physicists in the US have shown how subatomic \u2018ghost\u2019 particles known as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/neutrinos\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">neutrinos<\/a> could force atomic nuclei into becoming new elements.<\/p>\n<p>Not only would this be an entirely different method for building elements heavier than iron, it could also describe a long-hypothesized \u2018in-between\u2019 path that sits on the border between two known processes, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/what-is-nuclear-fusion\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">nuclear fusion<\/a> and nucleosynthesis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big atoms demand big energy to construct. A new model of quantum interactions now suggests some of the lightest particles in the Universe might play a critical role in how at least some heavy elements form. Physicists in the US have shown how subatomic \u2018ghost\u2019 particles known as neutrinos could force atomic nuclei into becoming [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[873,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear-energy","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}