The nuclear exosome and the nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD) pathways have been implicated in the degradation of distinct unspliced transcripts in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. In this study we show that these two systems can act sequentially on specific unspliced pre-mRNAs to limit their accumulation. Using steady-state and decay analyses, we show that while specific unspliced transcripts rely m...

One of the relatively simple physical processes that can be described successfully in the framework of introductory quantum theory is alpha decay. In this process, two protons and two neutrons out of a relatively large nucleus dissociate from the rest of the nucleus, form a separate subsystem and subsequently depart. In its full complexity, this process is not be describable, however a reasonab...

2014 Nuclear radii for mass numbers between A = 140 and 252 have been computed from 121 alpha decays between ground states of even-even nuclei. We use for that the two-body solution for the square well potential that we gave recently. The computed radii obey the A 1/3 law and they are consistent with the precise radii obtained from electron scattering. These two sets of radii show structures wh...

The interpretation of experiments that search for neutrinoless double-$\ensuremath{\beta}$ decay relies on input from nuclear theory. Cirigliano et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 202001 (2018)] recently showed that, the light Majorana exchange formalism, effective field theory calculations require a $nn\ensuremath{\rightarrow}pp{e}^{\ensuremath{-}}{e}^{\ensuremath{-}}$ contact term at leading order...