Nature Publication on Nuclear Clock Isomer 229mThorium finds broad Media Coverage
22.04.2018
In a collaborative effort between our LMU team and colleagues from the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), Johannes-Gutenberg University and Helmholtz-Institute Mainz and GSI Helmholtz-Center Darmstadt the first laser-spectroscopic characterization of the hyperfine nuclear structure of the nuclear clock isomer 229mTh was achieved in collinear laser spectroscopy measurements performed at the Maier-Leibnitz Laboratory in Garching. This breakthrough further paves the road towards an all-optical, highly precise nuclear clock.
The experimental results now appeared as an article in Nature.
The corresponding LMU press release can be found here.
Highly visible media coverage was provided by a 4.5 minutes TV report broadcasted by the 'Norddeutscher Rundfunk' on April 18, taped in the laboratories of our PTB colleagues in Braunschweig. The report can be viewed here from the NDR mediathek.
The scientific results were further featured as scientific breakthrough on the same day in the primetime national news (20:00 ARD Tagesschau).