Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Jeroen Belleman Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: OT: Atomic nucleus excited with laser: a breakthrough after decades Date: Tue, 7 May 2024 17:48:23 +0200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 22 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Tue, 07 May 2024 17:46:29 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="322ecfb41fba6482df7a21202d6cc2bd"; logging-data="3507466"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX189Co3ZJ0DNtVV/q5g8mDq1" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.13.0 Cancel-Lock: sha1:GMwFfK+/ak23A2+dVAUbo2m7G6c= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 2062 On 5/7/24 16:41, John Larkin wrote: > 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. > It says so in the paper: Fluorescent UV light. Jeroen Belleman