{"id":215569,"date":"2025-06-07T05:09:44","date_gmt":"2025-06-07T10:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/scientists-discover-extremely-neutron-deficient-isotope-protactinium-210"},"modified":"2025-06-07T05:09:44","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T10:09:44","slug":"scientists-discover-extremely-neutron-deficient-isotope-protactinium-210","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/scientists-discover-extremely-neutron-deficient-isotope-protactinium-210","title":{"rendered":"Scientists discover extremely neutron-deficient isotope protactinium-210"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-discover-extremely-neutron-deficient-isotope-protactinium-2102.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers from the Institute of Modern Physics (IMP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and their collaborators have synthesized a new isotope\u2014protactinium-210\u2014for the first time. It is the most neutron-deficient isotope of protactinium synthesized to date. Their findings are published in <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41467-025-60047-2\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Nature Communications<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/atomic+nucleus\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">atomic nucleus<\/a> is a quantum many-body system composed of protons and neutrons. Synthesizing and studying new nuclides is a frontier research topic in nuclear physics. Through this research, scientists can explore the limits of the existence of nuclei and deepen our understanding of the fundamental properties of matter.<\/p>\n<p>Theoretical predictions suggest the existence of around 7,000 nuclides, yet only about 3,300 have been experimentally synthesized and observed so far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers from the Institute of Modern Physics (IMP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and their collaborators have synthesized a new isotope\u2014protactinium-210\u2014for the first time. It is the most neutron-deficient isotope of protactinium synthesized to date. Their findings are published in Nature Communications. The atomic nucleus is a quantum many-body system composed of protons and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215569","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}