A team of researchers at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) at Michigan State University (MSU) has discovered that cobalt-70 isotope
A team of researchers at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) at Michigan State University (MSU) has discovered that cobalt-70 isotopes form different nuclear shapes when their energy levels differ only slightly. The findings, published in Nature Communications Physics, shed light on the dynamic, complex nature of exotic nuclear particles. The team included Artemis Spyrou, professor of physics at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) and in the MSU Department of Physics and Astronomy, Sean Liddick, associate professor of chemistry at FRIB and in the MSU Department of Chemistry and Experimental Nuclear Science Department head at FRIB, Alex Brown, professor of physics at FRIB, and Cade Dembski, former FRIB student research assistant. Dembski, now working on his Ph.D. at the University of Notre Dame, served as the paper's lead author.
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