About
The radio isotope Thorium-229 is expected to present a remarkably low-energy excited (isomer) state of the nucleus which is expected around 10 eV. It might hence be possible to directly excite the atomic nucleus with UV (laser) radiation, creating a bridge between atomic and nuclear physics. The (expected) narrow line width of the transition and the intrinsic robustness of nuclear transitions to external fields makes it a promising candidate for a new frequency standard - a "nuclear clock". In this presentation we will review the current state of knowledge on the low-energy nuclear transition in Thorium-229 and the ongoing quest to measure it's exact energy.
.
0:06:27 Slide 1
0:12:55 Slide 2
0:19:23 Slide 3
0:25:51 Slide 4
0:32:19 Slide 5
0:38:46 Slide 6
0:45:14 Slide 7
0:51:42 Slide 8
0:58:10 Slide 9
1:04:38 Slide 10
The talk
Credits and licence
- Institution
- CERN
- Department
- CERN Colloquium
- Speaker
- Thorsten Schumm
- Year
- 2020
- Language
- English
- Subjects
- Physics
- Source
- CERN
- Licence
- CERN, as CERN states it. CERN's terms
- Attribution
- © CERN. CERN provides its audiovisual media free of charge for educational and informational use, credited to CERN; this lecture is shown in CERN's own player.
- Who can watch
- CERN gives no rating. Invisible Network shows it to Tweens profiles and older, judged from what the source says about it. How courses are placed