{"id":506,"date":"2025-06-10T12:41:59","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T03:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qms.media-creations.org\/?page_id=506"},"modified":"2025-06-10T12:41:59","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T03:41:59","slug":"pr-b3","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/qm-science.org\/en\/planned-research\/pr-b3\/","title":{"rendered":"B03 \u201cInvestigation of Heavy Neutron-Rich Nuclei for Elucidating the Mechanism of Heavy Element Synthesis\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading is-style-vk-heading-plain\">B03 \u201cInvestigation of Heavy Neutron-Rich Nuclei for Elucidating the Mechanism of Heavy Element Synthesis\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns are-vertically-aligned-center vk_block-margin-md--margin-bottom is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:300px\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"250\" src=\"\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/Photo_Nishimura_B03.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-200\" style=\"width:200px\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"vk_block-margin-0--margin-bottom wp-block-paragraph\">Principle Investigator:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"vk_block-margin-0--margin-top vk_block-margin-0--margin-bottom has-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Shunji Nishimura<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"vk_block-margin-0--margin-top wp-block-paragraph\">(RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science, RIKEN, Senior Researcher)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Have you ever wondered how heavy elements like gold, platinum, uranium, or the lanthanides \u2013 so common in our daily lives \u2013 were formed?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This research seeks to uncover the origins of these elements by studying the r-process, a rapid-neutron capture process that occurs in the extreme environments of the universe, such as supernovae and neutron star mergers. We focus on the behavior of neutron-rich radioactive isotopes (RIs) which play a key role in this process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>At RIKEN\u2019s RIBF facility, we use powerful radioactive ion beams and cutting-edge equipment to precisely measure the masses and decay properties of these are isotopes.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The data we gather \u2013 high in precision and quantity \u2013 will be used to improve theoretical models that calculate the properties of thousands of atomic nuclei, including many we\u2019ve never observed before.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>This information helps us better understand how heavy elements are created in cosmic events and allows us to compare our results with the elemental compositions found in the solar system, ancient stars, and meteorites \u2013 offering new clues about the history of the universe.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>B03 \u201cInvestigation of Heavy Neutron-Rich Nuclei for Elucidating the Mechanism of Heavy Element Synthesis\u201d Prin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":487,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_locale":"en_US","_original_post":"https:\/\/qms.media-creations.org\/?page_id=199","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-506","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","en-US"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qm-science.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qm-science.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qm-science.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qm-science.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qm-science.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/qm-science.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":507,"href":"https:\/\/qm-science.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/506\/revisions\/507"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qm-science.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qm-science.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}