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First In-ring Nuclear Reaction Experiment Conducted at HIRFL-CSR

Recently , the first in-ring nuclear reaction experiment at the Cooler Storage Ring at the Heavy Ion Research Facility in Lanzhou ( HIRFL-CSR ) has been operated successfully .The results provide new research opportunities for the nuclear matter distribution studies on exotic nuclides by using the in-ring nuclear reaction setup at the HIRFL-CSR facility .Recently, the first in-ring nuclear reaction experiment at the Cooler Storage Ring at the Heavy Ion Research Facility in Lanzhou (HIRFL-CSR) has been operated successfully.
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| 18 12, 2019

Scientists Reveal Reaction Mechanisms of Weakly Bound Projectiles

Scientists from the Institute of Modern Physics ( IMP ) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Universidade Federal Fluminense of Brazil lately made progress in the study of reaction mechanisms of weakly bound projectiles .Scientists from IMP launched studies of reaction mechanism of the 9Be + 197Au system , and the systematic properties of 9Be induced reactions at above barrier energies .It wa...Scientists from the Institute of Modern Physics (IMP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Universidade Federal Fluminense of Brazil lately made progress in the study of reaction mechanisms of we...

| 27 11, 2019

Researchers Set New World Records of Beam Intensity of Highly Charged Uranium Ions

Research in nuclear reaction plays a vital role in our quest to understand microstructures of atomic nuclei and the mechanisms involved in their interactions .The highly charged uranium ion beams used in the research were produced by SECRAL-II , which was developed independently by IMP and was one of the best performing ECR ion sources for highly charged ion beams in the world .Research in nuclear reaction plays a vital role in our quest to understand microstructures of atomic nuclei and the mechanisms involved in their interactions. However, some important nuclear reacti...

| 12 11, 2019

Researchers Find the Threshold Voltage Controlling Nanochannel Ions Rectification

The existence of the threshold voltage which can switch the rectification state of ions in nanochannels was firstly revealed by researchers from the Institute of Modern Physics ( IMP ) .When the threshold electric field is exceeded , the carboxyl-cation bond of the PET molecular chain on the pore surface breaks , which leads to the dissociation of cation and the rearrangement of the molecular c...The existence of the threshold voltage which can switch the rectification state of ions in nanochannels was firstly revealed by researchers from the Institute of Modern Physics (IMP). The result wa...

| 28 10, 2019

DAMPE Achieves High-Precision and High-Energy Cosmic Ray Proton Spectrum Measurement

The Dark Matter Particle Explorer ( DAMPE , also known as " Wukong " ) collaboration recently reported the precise measurement of the energy spectrum of cosmic ray protons from 40 GeV to 100 TeV energies .Precise measurements of the proton energy spectrum are the key to understanding some fundamental questions of cosmic ray physics .The charge resolution can reach a high level of 0.059 @ Z = 1 ...The Dark Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE, also known as "Wukong") collaboration recently reported the precise measurement of the energy spectrum of cosmic ray protons from 40 GeV to 100 TeV energie...

| 28 10, 2019

Enhancing enzymatic hydrolysis yield of sweet sorghum straw polysaccharides by heavy ion beams irradiation pretreatment

Recently, researchers in the Biophysics Laboratory at the Institute of Modern Physics have made new progress in the study of lignocellulosic pretreatment by 12C6+ irradiation to improve the enzymatic hydrolysis yield and its mechanism, using the experimental platform at the Heavy Ion Research Facility in Lanzhou (HIRFL).Biomass is one of the most widely distributed renewable energy sources on the earth. It plays an irreplaceable role in replacing traditional fossil fuels, alleviating energy crisis and solving envi...

| 17 06, 2019

Endocytosis-mediated mitochondrial transplantation: Transferring normal human astrocytic mitochondria into glioma cells rescues aerobic respiration and enhances radiosensitivity

This study is the first to introduce mitochondrial transplantation into the field of tumor radiotherapy, and propose that autologous mitochondrial transplantation could be a therapeutic intervention that uses mitochondria from patients who are both the donor and recipient. Since mitochondria are processed outside the body and reintroduced into the same patient, this therapy would be of high spe... Recently researchers in the Radiation Medicine Group at the Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences obtained new findings on starvation-induced endocytosis via NAD+-CD38-cADPR-Ca2...

| 05 06, 2019

Highly Relativistic Bound Systems Described by a Novel Theoretical Approach

The researchers obtain the pion and the kaon parton distribution functions (PDFs) from the overlap of the eigenstates of an effective confining and chiral Hamiltonian in the valence quark-antiquark representation suitable for low-momentum scale applications. After QCD evolution, the PDF of the pion is shown in Fig.1 which describes the probability of finding a parton (quark, gluon) carrying a (...Pions and kaons, the two lightest mesons, have long been postulated as a combination of a valence quark-antiquark pair strongly bound by the strong nuclear force mediated by gluons. The systems are...

| 08 05, 2019

Important progress of mononuclear rhenium carbonyl complex in the gas phase

Recently, the systematic study on the Group-VII Re carbonyls formed in the gas-phase chemical reactions was carried out. This work was led by the researchers from nuclear chemistry group of IMP in collaboration with the researchers from RIKEN (Japan) and PSI (Switzerland). This work provided a good foundation for future investigation on the superheavy Bh carbonyl complexes.Recently, the systematic study on the Group-VII Re carbonyls formed in the gas-phase chemical reactions was carried out. This work was led by the researchers from nuclear chemistry group of IMP in ...

| 25 04, 2019

A New Approach to Spent Nuclear Fuel Recycling

Reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel has became the key issues for the environmentally friendly and sustainable development of nuclear energy. With the help of the external neutron source, the rest spent nuclear fuel after removing the part fission products will be refabricated to new nuclear fuel and burned. For those volatiles and semi-volatile fission products would be easily removed by using ...Reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel has became the key issues for the environmentally friendly and sustainable development of nuclear energy. With the help of the external neutron source, the rest s...

| 18 01, 2019