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.

Tuesday, 30 April 2024

Th-229 isomer breakthrough

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A group in Germany has just published a paper showing a huge improvement in accuracy in measuring the energy and lifetime of the lowest-ly...

Thursday, 25 April 2024

16 year erratum

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There is an erratum published in Physical Review C this week which corrects paper from 16 years ago. In their opening sentence they own u...

Tuesday, 16 April 2024

IoP conference at Liverpool

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It's my first day back at work since being at the IoP HEPP/AP/NP (that's High Energy & Particle Physics / Astroparticle Physics...

Tuesday, 26 March 2024

New isotopes project website

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For some years Michael Thoennessen at Michigan State University has developed and curated a database of isotope discovery - i.e. when, where...

Tuesday, 19 March 2024

Bye bye 12BB03

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Last week I was on a work trip to the USA and on my first day there I got an email from my employer telling me that I have to move offices ...

Thursday, 15 February 2024

RIP Charlotte Froese Fischer 1929–2024

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If Wikipedia is to be believed, then Charlotte Froese Fischer has died, aged 94. I say "if it is to be believed" because I haven...

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Thursday, 8 February 2024

The history of exchange forces

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I almost missed this paper submitted to to the history and philosophy section of arXiv last week, but picked it up when reviewing recent cr...

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