9 MV FN Pelletron Tandem Accelerator at IFIN-HH (IMAGE)

The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences

9 MV FN Pelletron Tandem Accelerator at IFIN-HH

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In an experiment performed at the Romanian accelerator centre IFIN-HH, an international team of physicists observed a 'second face' of the nickel-66 nuclei: a relatively stable excited state in which the shape of nucleus is changed.

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Source: IFIN-HH

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