New type of oxygen discovered
An international team of physicists led by nuclear physicist Yosuke Kondo of Tokyo Institute of Technology has discovered a new isotope of oxygen 'Oxygen-28'. The 'Oxygen-28' isotope has 20 neutrons and 8 protons. This discovery is considered important for future nuclear experiments. Earlier, 'Oxygen-26' isotope of oxygen had the highest number of neutrons (18).
methods (emulation and history matching) developed in our Mathematical Sciences department to demonstrate that the measurement of 28O properties can provide valuable constraints of such theoretical approaches and, most importantly, the particular nuclear interactions employed.
The use of advanced UQ methods allowed the research team to make realistic predictions of the properties of 28O, which were previously completely intractable and facilitated the core scientific process of comparing theoretical predictions with experimental results.
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