Nature Communications (Jun 2019)
The observation of vibrating pear-shapes in radon nuclei
- P. A. Butler,
- L. P. Gaffney,
- P. Spagnoletti,
- J. Konki,
- M. Scheck,
- J. F. Smith,
- K. Abrahams,
- M. Bowry,
- J. Cederkäll,
- T. Chupp,
- G. de Angelis,
- H. De Witte,
- P. E. Garrett,
- A. Goldkuhle,
- C. Henrich,
- A. Illana,
- K. Johnston,
- D. T. Joss,
- J. M. Keatings,
- N. A. Kelly,
- M. Komorowska,
- T. Kröll,
- M. Lozano,
- B. S. Nara Singh,
- D. O’Donnell,
- J. Ojala,
- R. D. Page,
- L. G. Pedersen,
- C. Raison,
- P. Reiter,
- J. A. Rodriguez,
- D. Rosiak,
- S. Rothe,
- T. M. Shneidman,
- B. Siebeck,
- M. Seidlitz,
- J. Sinclair,
- M. Stryjczyk,
- P. Van Duppen,
- S. Vinals,
- V. Virtanen,
- N. Warr,
- K. Wrzosek-Lipska,
- M. Zielinska
Affiliations
- P. A. Butler
- Oliver Lodge Laboratory, University of Liverpool
- L. P. Gaffney
- Oliver Lodge Laboratory, University of Liverpool
- P. Spagnoletti
- School of Computing, Engineering and Physical Sciences, University of the West of Scotland
- J. Konki
- CERN
- M. Scheck
- School of Computing, Engineering and Physical Sciences, University of the West of Scotland
- J. F. Smith
- School of Computing, Engineering and Physical Sciences, University of the West of Scotland
- K. Abrahams
- Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of the Western Cape
- M. Bowry
- TRIUMF
- J. Cederkäll
- Physics Department, Lund University
- T. Chupp
- Department of Physics, University of Michigan
- G. de Angelis
- INFN Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro
- H. De Witte
- Instituut voor Kern- en Stralingsfysica, KU Leuven
- P. E. Garrett
- Department of Physics, University of Guelph
- A. Goldkuhle
- Institute for Nuclear Physics, University of Cologne
- C. Henrich
- Institut für Kernphysik, Technische Universität Darmstadt
- A. Illana
- INFN Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro
- K. Johnston
- CERN
- D. T. Joss
- Oliver Lodge Laboratory, University of Liverpool
- J. M. Keatings
- School of Computing, Engineering and Physical Sciences, University of the West of Scotland
- N. A. Kelly
- School of Computing, Engineering and Physical Sciences, University of the West of Scotland
- M. Komorowska
- Heavy Ion Laboratory, University of Warsaw
- T. Kröll
- Institut für Kernphysik, Technische Universität Darmstadt
- M. Lozano
- CERN
- B. S. Nara Singh
- School of Computing, Engineering and Physical Sciences, University of the West of Scotland
- D. O’Donnell
- School of Computing, Engineering and Physical Sciences, University of the West of Scotland
- J. Ojala
- Department of Physics, University of Jyvaskyla
- R. D. Page
- Oliver Lodge Laboratory, University of Liverpool
- L. G. Pedersen
- Department of Physics, University of Oslo
- C. Raison
- Department of Physics, University of York
- P. Reiter
- Institute for Nuclear Physics, University of Cologne
- J. A. Rodriguez
- CERN
- D. Rosiak
- Institute for Nuclear Physics, University of Cologne
- S. Rothe
- CERN
- T. M. Shneidman
- JINR Dubna
- B. Siebeck
- Institute for Nuclear Physics, University of Cologne
- M. Seidlitz
- Institute for Nuclear Physics, University of Cologne
- J. Sinclair
- School of Computing, Engineering and Physical Sciences, University of the West of Scotland
- M. Stryjczyk
- Instituut voor Kern- en Stralingsfysica, KU Leuven
- P. Van Duppen
- Instituut voor Kern- en Stralingsfysica, KU Leuven
- S. Vinals
- Consejo Superior De Investigaciones Científicas
- V. Virtanen
- Department of Physics, University of Jyvaskyla
- N. Warr
- Institute for Nuclear Physics, University of Cologne
- K. Wrzosek-Lipska
- Heavy Ion Laboratory, University of Warsaw
- M. Zielinska
- IRFU CEA, Université Paris-Saclay
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10494-5
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 10,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 6
Abstract
Octupole deformation in nuclei is important to understand nuclear structure and electric dipole moments of heavy atoms. Here the authors measure energies of excited quantum states in radon isotopes and find that these isotopes do not provide favourable conditions in the search for CP-violation.
