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From: Jeroen Belleman <jeroen@nospam.please>
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Subject: Re: OT: Atomic nucleus excited with laser: a breakthrough after
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Date: Tue, 7 May 2024 16:26:27 +0200
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On 5/7/24 15:35, Martin Brown 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?
> 

They state a centre frequency of roughly 2 PHz and a decay time
of 630s, which would put the Q in the 1e19 ballpark. Prodigious.
No wonder it was hard to find.

Jeroen Belleman