Blog of the Isotopes

All about nuclear physics - research, news and comment. The author is Prof Paul Stevenson - a researcher in nuclear physics in the UK. Sometimes the posts are a little tangential to nuclear physics.

Friday, 21 February 2020

Death and serious injury from dark matter

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A few years ago, I wrote a blog post about a paper published on the subject of dark matter as a potential cancer-causing agent . Today, ...

Saturday, 8 February 2020

First papers published in our Frontiers special topic

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Last year, some colleagues (Lu Guo (郭璐), Denis Lacroix, Cédric Simenel, Nicolas Schunck) and I started organising and co-editing a special...

Friday, 7 February 2020

Hyperfine school

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I've been off work sick for a few days with the lurgy. Ugh. Ah well, these things happen, and it is winter flu season after all. ...

Friday, 31 January 2020

Brexit Day

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I'm feeling pretty sad today that we are leaving the EU. At 2300 this evening we will no longer be a member state. So long, EU. It w...

Thursday, 30 January 2020

Historical reminiscences on Skyrmions

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There's a new paper on the arXiv today by Ian Aitchison, giving an historical account of the development of Skyrme's nonlinear fi...

Thursday, 23 January 2020

Happy Birthday Gran!

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I've just walked to the post office on campus to send off a card, written by my kids and also signed by me, to wish my grandmother a...

Friday, 17 January 2020

Paul-Henri Heenen 1947–2019

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I received the latest copy of Nuclear Physics News today and was saddened to read of the death of Paul-Henri Heenen . I knew Paul-Henri...

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