Sentences with phrase «excited nuclear state»

With financial support from the EU - funded project nuClock, Thirolf, von der Wense and Seiferle have continued to characterize the energy transition in the 229Th nucleus, and have now succeeded in measuring the lifetime of the excited nuclear state.

Although in general the decay of an excited nuclear state follows the hierarchy of these forces, there are sometimes exceptions.

Not exact matches

Though conventional lasers that emit UV light already exist, Tkalya says that thorium lasers could form the light source in a nuclear thorium clock, and help us uncover the properties and behaviour of the thorium - 229 nucleus's excited state.