audio by artist nscl media

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Supplement to Gelbke's column in the November 2007 MSU Alumni e-newsletter.

9:04 minutes (12.46 MB)

7:21 minutes (8.42 MB)

Andreas Stolz, NSCL assistant professor and collaborator on a Physical Review Letters paper published the week of November 5, 2007, discusses the significance of the direct observation of two-proton decay of iron-45, including the use of visual images as raw experimental data.

12:05 minutes (16.61 MB)

"The main focus of the paper is on using the (³He, t) reaction to study the spin-isospin response of nuclei," says Remco Zegers, NSCL assistant professor, of his research appearing in the Nov. 16 issue of Physical Review Letters. "With this reaction we can get about 20 KeV to 30 KeV resolution; that's very detailed information." Zegers describes his research, done in collaboration with scientists in Japan, Germany, France and the Netherlands, in this 12-minute audio interview.

6:40 minutes (9.32 MB)

A ground state atomic nucleus can be something of a black box, masking subtle details about its structure behind the aggregate interplay of its protons and neutrons. This is one reason nuclear scientists are so keenly interested in isomers -- relatively long-lived excited-state nuclei that more easily give up their structural secrets to experimentalists. For years, gamma ray spectroscopy has been one of the only reliable means of studying isomers. But now scientists have a new tool at their disposal.