{"id":217086,"date":"2025-07-03T06:19:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T11:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/heaviest-tin-isotopes-provide-insights-into-element-synthesis"},"modified":"2025-07-03T06:19:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T11:19:07","slug":"heaviest-tin-isotopes-provide-insights-into-element-synthesis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/heaviest-tin-isotopes-provide-insights-into-element-synthesis","title":{"rendered":"Heaviest tin isotopes provide insights into element synthesis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/heaviest-tin-isotopes-provide-insights-into-element-synthesis.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An international team of researchers, led by scientists from GSI\/FAIR in Darmstadt, Germany, has studied r-process nucleosynthesis in measurements conducted at the Canadian research center TRIUMF in Vancouver. At the center of this work are the first mass measurements of three extremely neutron-rich tin isotopes: tin-136, tin-137 and tin-138. The results are <a href=\"https:\/\/link.aps.org\/doi\/10.1103\/ctyj-ls15\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Physical Review Letters.<\/p>\n<p>The high-precision measurements, combined with nucleosynthesis network calculations, help to better understand how <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/heavy+elements\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">heavy elements<\/a> are formed in the universe, especially through the rapid neutron capture process (the r-process) occurring in neutron star mergers.<\/p>\n<p>The data reveal the neutron separation energy, which defines the path of the r-process on the nuclear chart. The study found unexpected changes in the behavior of tin nuclei beyond the magic neutron number N=82, specifically, a reduction in the pairing effect of the last two neutrons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An international team of researchers, led by scientists from GSI\/FAIR in Darmstadt, Germany, has studied r-process nucleosynthesis in measurements conducted at the Canadian research center TRIUMF in Vancouver. At the center of this work are the first mass measurements of three extremely neutron-rich tin isotopes: tin-136, tin-137 and tin-138. The results are published in the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217086","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=217086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}