Nuclear physicists examine oxygen's limits

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Undergraduates from 10 different institutions assembled the Modular Neutron Array (MoNA) at the Michigan State University National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory in 2002. MoNA collaborators were back to help move the detector as part of the 200 ...
Undergraduates from 10 different institutions assembled the Modular Neutron Array (MoNA) at the Michigan State University National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory in 2002. MoNA collaborators were back to help move the detector as part of the 2007 NSCL reconfiguration, a $2.7 million project that will keep the laboratory's science program at the cutting edge of nuclear science and allow for tests of technologies critical to next-generation rare isotope beam facilities. Pictured here from left to right helping to move MoNA: Amy Deline, Central Michigan University; Artemis Spyrou, NSCL; Greg Christian, NSCL; Ruth Howes, Marquette University. Credit: NSCL

Physicists at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL) at Michigan State University have made a unique measurement of an exotic oxygen nucleus, leading scientists one step closer to deciphering the behavior of the element at its limits of existence.


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