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The nuclear drip line is the boundary beyond which atomic nuclei are unbound with respect to the emission of a proton or neutron.
An arbitrary combination of protons and neutrons does not necessarily yield a stable nucleus. One can think of moving up or to the right across the table of nuclides by adding a proton or a neutron, respectively, to a given nucleus. However, adding nucleons one at a time to a given nucleus will eventually lead to a newly formed nucleus that immediately decays by emitting a proton (or neutron). Colloquially speaking, the nucleon has leaked or dripped out of the nucleus, hence giving rise to the term drip line.
Drip lines are defined for protons and neutrons at the extreme of the proton-to-neutron ratio; at p:n ratios at or beyond the drip lines, no bound nuclei can exist. While the location of the proton drip line is well known for many elements, the location of the neutron drip line is only known for elements up to neon.[1]
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The nucleardripline is the boundary beyond which atomic nuclei are unbound with respect to the emission of a proton or neutron. An arbitrary combination...
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the Chart of the Nuclides towards its outer sides, the so-called Nucleardripline. It will also allow expansion of the Chart towards heavier isotopes...
occur in this nuclide. Heaviest particle-bound isotope of oxygen, see Nucleardripline Natural oxygen is made of three stable isotopes, 16 O , 17 O , and...
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pair). Beyond the neutron dripline along the lower left, nuclides decay by neutron emission. Beyond the proton dripline along the upper right, nuclides...
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at the extreme edges of the table of nuclides — the neutron dripline and proton dripline — and have short half-lives, measured in milliseconds. These...
of radioactive/unstable nuclei, almost to the limits of bound nuclei (the drip lines), and under high density (up to neutron star matter) and high temperature...
shell-breaking with map of nuclide table showing the 5 known islands. "The dripline: nuclei on the edge of stability". CERN Courier. 20 November 2007. "New...
the extreme edges of the chart of the nuclides—the neutron dripline and proton dripline—and are all unstable with short half-lives, measured in milliseconds;...
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; Allmond, J. M.; et al. (2022). "Crossing N = 28 toward the neutron dripline: first measurement of half-lives at FRIB". Physical Review Letters. 129...
a dominant decay mode for superheavy elements, with nuclear stability generally falling as nuclear mass increases. It thus forms a practical limit to heavy...
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