Investigating an island of inversion: Physicists pinpoint boundary where nuclear shell model breaks down

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An experiment carried out at the installation of Isolde du Cern determined the west bank of a small island of atomic nuclei, where conventional nuclear rules break down. The atomic nucleus was discovered more than a century ago, but many questions remain on the force that maintains its protons and neutrons constitutive and [...]