Path: ...!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-1.nntp.ord.giganews.com!nntp.supernews.com!news.supernews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 07 May 2024 14:43:39 +0000 From: John Larkin Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: OT: Atomic nucleus excited with laser: a breakthrough after decades Date: Tue, 07 May 2024 07:41:54 -0700 Organization: Highland Tech Reply-To: xx@yy.com Message-ID: References: X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 3.1/32.783 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 17 X-Trace: sv3-iJ4zqYO9sqwTs0j4vqU3bpjSDmOrHbTk+7cPqG/8lXbWu+Cfn2xk4T/Mrdep9ewqER4IGRRxv7Rxds8!3ZGhun00ytfupJKgX8gBSt09i2eLiAgD2niPUjkz921GiEVAhHYVOtfPiox1afsjUPmKlcNo+whB!it2BRw== X-Complaints-To: www.supernews.com/docs/abuse.html X-DMCA-Complaints-To: www.supernews.com/docs/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 1894 On Tue, 7 May 2024 14:35:12 +0100, Martin Brown <'''newspam'''@nonad.co.uk> wrote: >On 07/05/2024 06:06, Jan Panteltje wrote: >> Atomic nucleus excited with laser: a breakthrough after decades >> https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/04/240429103045.htm >> The 'thorium transition', which has been sought after for decades, >> has now been excited for the first time with lasers. >> This paves the way for revolutionary high precision technologies, including nuclear clocks > >I wonder what the Q value for stimulated nuclear emission is? "the correct energy of the thorium transition was hit exactly, the thorium nuclei delivered a clear signal for the first time. " I wonder what that signal was.