Nuclear Clock: Nature publication on breakthrough with observation of radiative 229mTh decay
24.05.2023
On the way towards world's first nuclear clock another breakthrough result can be reported: the first observation of the radiative decay of the thorium isomer 229mTh. This result was achieved in a large collaborative effort of an international team performed at CERN's nuclear physics facility ISOLDE, led by a group from KU Leuven (Belgium). The project represents the PhD thesis project of Dr. Sandro Kraemer, since August 2022 postdoctoral fellow in the LMU Nuclear Clock group at the Chair of Medical Physics.
The results were published on May 24, 2023 in Nature (the article can be found here) and featured by LMU in a news article that can be found here.
If you want to learn directly from Sandro Kraemer why this observation is special on the way towards a nuclear clock, you may watch the video that was produced by CERN and which you can find here at the bottom of the CERN news release.