Tag: nuclear physics

  • HIE-ISOLDE: 10 years, 10 highlights

    HIE-ISOLDE: 10 years, 10 highlights

    Since its first experiment in 2015, the HIE-ISOLDE accelerator has been pushing back the boundaries of nuclear physics

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  • Molecules of pear-shaped atomic nuclei bear fruit

    Molecules of pear-shaped atomic nuclei bear fruit

    A new ISOLDE study of molecules containing pear-shaped atomic nuclei helps shape future research aimed at testing fundamental symmetries of nature

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  • ISOLDE investigates island of inversion

    ISOLDE investigates island of inversion

    An experiment carried out at CERN’s ISOLDE facility has determined the western shore of a small island of atomic nuclei, where conventional nuclear rules break down

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  • ISOLDE sees shape shifting in gold nuclei

    ISOLDE sees shape shifting in gold nuclei

    The finding comes a little more than 50 years after the phenomenon was first discovered at the facility in mercury nuclei

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  • An even closer look at magic tin

    An even closer look at magic tin

    A measurement of the indium-99 atomic nucleus in a long-lived excited state offers an even closer look at the special “doubly magic” tin-100 nucleus than a previous measurement in the ground state

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  • Nuclear physics at CERN: a hub for interdisciplinary research

    Nuclear physics at CERN: a hub for interdisciplinary research

    Fundamental research at the ISOLDE and n_TOF facilities at CERN has applications in a wide variety of areas of astrophysics, medical physics, energy and more

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  • ISOLDE data get deluxe theoretical treatment

    ISOLDE data get deluxe theoretical treatment

    A unique combination of high-quality experimental data and several state-of-the-art nuclear-physics models has resulted in an excellent agreement between experiment and theory

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  • Potassium nucleus loses some of its magic

    Potassium nucleus loses some of its magic

    A new study at ISOLDE finds no signature of a “magic” number of neutrons in potassium-51, challenging the proposed magic nature of nuclei with 32 neutrons

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