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Track it to the limit

Nature Physics volume 10, pages 338–339 (2014)Cite this article

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Powerful γ-ray detectors are revealing fresh details about the interior of the nucleus, focusing initially on cases where there is a large excess of neutrons and edging towards the neutron drip-line limit.

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Figure 1: Right on track: these germanium γ-ray detectors at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, USA, offer state-of-the-art tracking of γ-rays from nuclei.

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