Sentences with phrase «colliding ion beams»
Not exact matches
Indeed, when the team collided a beam of nickel - 58 ions with a target made of a natural mixture of nickel isotopes at the National Heavy Ion Accelerator (GANIL) in Caen, France, the researchers managed to spot just two fleeting nickel - 48 nuclei.
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The use of intermediate size nuclei is expected to result in intermediate energy density - not as high as in earlier runs colliding two beams of gold ions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), but more than was produced by colliding a beam of gold ions with much lighter deuterons.