Laser light splits atom
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Independent research teams have used powerful lasers at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in the UK and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the US to split the uranium atom. This is a key development in efforts to identify what occurs when matter interacts with the highest electromagnetic field strengths of light. It has been possible to demonstrate that, if gamma rays are sufficiently energetic, they can perturb the delicate stability of heavy nuclei, prompting a split into lighter elements and neutrons in a process known as photonuclear fission.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2000
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Experimental observation of relativistic nonlinear Thomson scattering
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Ultrahigh-peak-power lasers provide a way of creating large photon densities needed to study relativistic or nonlinear Thomson scattering. Such an approach has been used to provide experimental confirmation of the theoretical predictions of relativistic Thomson scattering. A future goal is to achieve coherent harmonics generation, which could be used in table-top X-ray sources.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1998
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Nuclear fission modes and fragment mass asymmetries in a five-dimensional deformation space
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Research is presented describing the study of energy produced by the different surfaces of nuclear fission modes.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2001
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