{"id":241019,"date":"2026-07-16T20:12:43","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T01:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/single-fission-experiment-maps-excess-gamma-rays-from-more-than-a-dozen-unstable-nuclei"},"modified":"2026-07-16T20:12:43","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T01:12:43","slug":"single-fission-experiment-maps-excess-gamma-rays-from-more-than-a-dozen-unstable-nuclei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/single-fission-experiment-maps-excess-gamma-rays-from-more-than-a-dozen-unstable-nuclei","title":{"rendered":"Single fission experiment maps excess gamma rays from more than a dozen unstable nuclei"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/single-fission-experiment-maps-excess-gamma-rays-from-more-than-a-dozen-unstable-nuclei2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a single experiment, physicists have measured the \u201cexcess\u201d emission of high-energy gamma rays from more than a dozen heavy, unstable atomic nuclei. Mapping the gamma-ray emissions of so many isotopes produced in nuclear fission marks an important step toward a better understanding of one of the key phenomena in modern nuclear physics: the fission process itself.<\/p>\n<p>Why do excited heavy nuclei produced in fission appear to emit excessive amounts of particularly energetic gamma radiation? New clues to this long-standing question have emerged from an international experiment conducted at the GANIL accelerator facility in Caen, northern France. Here, a beryllium-9 target was bombarded with uranium-238 ions, producing unstable curium-247 nuclei that rapidly underwent fission into two lighter fragments.<\/p>\n<p>By combining unique experimental techniques, researchers were able\u2014for the first time within a single experiment\u2014to collect data on high-energy gamma-ray emissions from more than a dozen heavy, unstable isotopes. The first results of the experiment, to which the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IFJ PAN) in Krakow made a significant contribution, have just been <a href=\"https:\/\/linkinghub.elsevier.com\/retrieve\/pii\/S037026932600359X\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in Physics Letters B.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a single experiment, physicists have measured the \u201cexcess\u201d emission of high-energy gamma rays from more than a dozen heavy, unstable atomic nuclei. Mapping the gamma-ray emissions of so many isotopes produced in nuclear fission marks an important step toward a better understanding of one of the key phenomena in modern nuclear physics: the fission [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1965,873,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mapping","category-nuclear-energy","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241019","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=241019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}