Nuclear recoil spectroscopy of levitated particles

2018/05/31 by Alexander Malyzhenkov, Vyacheslav Lebedev, Alonso Castro
Physics and Astronomy · #Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research #Atomic physics #Characterization (materials science) #Materials science #Nanotechnology #Nuclear physics #Nuclear reaction #Physics #Quantum, superfluid, helium dynamics #Radioactive Decay and Measurement Techniques #Radioactive decay #Recoil #Spectroscopy #physics.ins-det

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physreva.98.052103

published as Phys. Rev. A 98, 052103 (2018)

arxiv created 2018/10/04 · openalex publication_date 2018/11/06 · arxiv updated 2018/11/14 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

Nuclear decay processes are proposed to be detected and characterized by measuring nuclear decay recoils within small particles levitated in an optical trap with high positional resolution. The interesting technique may shed light on the ``uncertainty of the half-life'' debate.

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