Publications by authors named "Akira Fujieda"
Article Synopsis
- The metastable first excited state of thorium-229 is only a few electronvolts above its nuclear ground state and can be manipulated using vacuum ultraviolet lasers.
- Researchers have achieved optical pumping into thorium using synchrotron radiation, allowing them to accurately determine the resonance energy and measure the isomer's half-life.
- New measurements help clarify the energy of the Th isomer and improve our understanding of its nuclear structure, with potential applications in fundamental physics and the development of a nuclear clock.
