Tag Archives: Nuclear Physics

Crystallizing the Path Toward a Nuclear Clock

Posted on July 2, 2024 by rberkowitz

Researchers have made the most precise measurement to date of the excited nuclear state of thorium-229, a candidate isotope for an ultraprecise nuclear clock. Continue reading →

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Adding Certainty to Plutonium’s Fission Yield

Posted on June 14, 2024 by rberkowitz

A first-of-its-kind measurement reveals the energy spectrum of the neutrons produced during the fission of plutonium, a common nuclear fuel component. Continue reading →

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How Lasers Could Build Heavy Elements

Posted on February 22, 2024 by rberkowitz

Laser-generated nucleosynthesis remains out of reach of present-day technology—but more powerful lasers could eventually make it possible. Continue reading →

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Characterizing Clusters inNuclear Collisions

Posted on April 28, 2023 by rberkowitz

High-energy collisions result in the formation of clusters of neutrons and protons inside atomic nuclei and in the emission of energetic ions. Continue reading →

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A Liquid Method to Prepare Ion Beams

Posted on May 24, 2022 by rberkowitz

A liquid-metal jet can strip electrons from a high-intensity, accelerator-based ion beam, increasing the beam’s charge and enhancing accelerator performance. Continue reading →

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Bringing into Focus the Debris of Heavy-Ion Collisions

Posted on March 16, 2022 by rberkowitz

A deblurring technique pioneered in optics could correct for measurement-induced smearing of particle distributions in a high-energy nuclear collision experiment. Read more in APS Physics…

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Ion Recoil from Photon Beam Observed

Posted on June 22, 2020 by rberkowitz

Experiments confirm that photonionized molecules get a backward kick, as predicted by theory.  Continue reading →

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Localized electric field manipulates a nuclear spin

Posted on April 9, 2020 by rberkowitz

Nuclear electric resonance provides the atom-level control required for some quantum computing applications.  Continue reading →

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Rare nuclear transition provides evidence for stellar explosion mechanism

Posted on March 2, 2020 by rberkowitz

With its higher-than-expected propensity to capture electrons, neon could drive some stars’ thermonuclear death.  Continue reading →

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Rare nuclear transition provides evidence for supernova mechanism

Posted on January 31, 2020 by rberkowitz

With its higher-than-expected propensity to capture electrons, neon could drive some stars’ thermonuclear death. Continue reading →

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