HIRFL is currently Asia's highest-energy and China's only comprehensive heavy-ion accelerator facility. It advances international nuclear physics research and helps develop particle accelerator technologies and their industrial applications in China.

Scientists from the Institute of Modern Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in collaboration with international partners, have synthesized two new isotopes—berkelium-235 and americium-231—at the Heavy Ion Research Facility in Lanzhou. Their findings provide critical experimental data for researching neutron-deficient actinide nuclei.

A research team from the Institute of Modern Physics has directly measured the masses of two highly unstable atomic nuclei, phosphorus-26 and sulfur-27. These precise measurements provide crucial information for determining the nuclear reaction rate during X-ray bursts, advancing our understanding of how elements are synthesized under such extreme conditions.

Researchers from the Institute of Modern Physics (IMP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have reported new experimental results that advances our understanding of reaction dynamics and exotic nuclear structures of weakly bound nuclei.