Resonant X-ray excitation of the nuclear clock isomer


Journal

Nature
ISSN: 1476-4687
Titre abrégé: Nature
Pays: England
ID NLM: 0410462

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
Oct 2023
Historique:
received: 15 05 2023
accepted: 27 07 2023
medline: 23 10 2023
pubmed: 28 9 2023
entrez: 27 9 2023
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

Resonant oscillators with stable frequencies and large quality factors help us to keep track of time with high precision. Examples range from quartz crystal oscillators in wristwatches to atomic oscillators in atomic clocks, which are, at present, our most precise time measurement devices

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pubmed: 37758953
doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06491-w
pii: 10.1038/s41586-023-06491-w
pmc: PMC10584683
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Journal Article

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eng

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IM

Pagination

471-475

Informations de copyright

© 2023. UChicago Argonne, LLC, Operator of Argonne National Laboratory.

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Auteurs

Yuri Shvyd'ko (Y)

Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, USA. shvydko@anl.gov.

Ralf Röhlsberger (R)

Helmholtz Institute Jena, Jena, Germany.
GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany.
Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Jena, Germany.
Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg, Germany.

Olga Kocharovskaya (O)

Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA.

Jörg Evers (J)

Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg, Germany.

Gianluca Aldo Geloni (GA)

European X-Ray Free-Electron Laser Facility, Schenefeld, Germany.

Peifan Liu (P)

Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, USA.

Deming Shu (D)

Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, USA.

Antonino Miceli (A)

Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, USA.

Brandon Stone (B)

Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, USA.

Willi Hippler (W)

Helmholtz Institute Jena, Jena, Germany.
GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany.

Berit Marx-Glowna (B)

Helmholtz Institute Jena, Jena, Germany.
GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany.

Ingo Uschmann (I)

Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Jena, Germany.

Robert Loetzsch (R)

Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Jena, Germany.

Olaf Leupold (O)

Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg, Germany.

Hans-Christian Wille (HC)

Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg, Germany.

Ilya Sergeev (I)

Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg, Germany.

Miriam Gerharz (M)

Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg, Germany.

Xiwen Zhang (X)

Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA.

Christian Grech (C)

Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg, Germany.

Marc Guetg (M)

Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg, Germany.

Vitali Kocharyan (V)

Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg, Germany.

Naresh Kujala (N)

European X-Ray Free-Electron Laser Facility, Schenefeld, Germany.

Shan Liu (S)

Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg, Germany.

Weilun Qin (W)

Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg, Germany.

Alexey Zozulya (A)

European X-Ray Free-Electron Laser Facility, Schenefeld, Germany.

Jörg Hallmann (J)

European X-Ray Free-Electron Laser Facility, Schenefeld, Germany.

Ulrike Boesenberg (U)

European X-Ray Free-Electron Laser Facility, Schenefeld, Germany.

Wonhyuk Jo (W)

European X-Ray Free-Electron Laser Facility, Schenefeld, Germany.

Johannes Möller (J)

European X-Ray Free-Electron Laser Facility, Schenefeld, Germany.

Angel Rodriguez-Fernandez (A)

European X-Ray Free-Electron Laser Facility, Schenefeld, Germany.

Mohamed Youssef (M)

European X-Ray Free-Electron Laser Facility, Schenefeld, Germany.

Anders Madsen (A)

European X-Ray Free-Electron Laser Facility, Schenefeld, Germany.

Tomasz Kolodziej (T)

National Synchrotron Radiation Centre SOLARIS, Kraków, Poland.

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