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Nature Physics 1, 81 - 82 (2005)
doi:10.1038/nphys150
Subject Category: Nuclear physics
Nuclear physics: Long live isomer research
- Ani Aprahamian and Yang Sun are in the Department of Physics and Institute for Structure & Nuclear Astrophysics, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556-5670, USA. e-mail: aapraham@nd.edu; e-mail: ysun@nd.edu
Abstract
Excited quantum states in nature are normally extremely short-lived, and this certainly applies to most nuclei. But what makes the metastable nuclear states different? And how can we exploit them for useful applications?
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