Questions tagged [nuclear-isomers]
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Are there any nuclear isotopes with both chiral and non chiral nuclear isomers?
I seek a nuclear isotope where one nuclear isomer is chiral and the other not. Are there any. Can there be any?
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Neutron Dose Rate to Activity Calculation
This is a completely hypothetical question but say I have an unknown radioactive source inside a steel box, given the dimensions of the volumetric source and the container, the neutron dose rate 1m ...
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Can you theoretically form plutonium 238 form plutonium 239? And if so then how and what are its limitations?
Basically if we could convert plutonium 239 to 238 then we could create space fuel from nuclear waste but if it is possible then what are its limitations due to which this process is not generally in ...
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How do nuclear physicists know if a particularly long-lived nuclear isomer actually exists? If it never seems to emit a gamma ray?
Some nuclear isomers (like tantalum-180m) have never even been observed to decay....
How do we know it is in an excited state then? That it actually absorbed some form of energy?
Can these includes ...
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Why can't high-level nuclear waste be disposed of by bombarding troublesome isotopes with neutrons, protons and gamma rays (photodisintegration)?
Why can't isotopes with long half-lives be radiated with free protons, neutron radiation and gamma rays (photodisintegration) in order to transmutate those isotopes into something either stable (or ...
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Why does the doubly-magic nucleus tin-$132$ have such a short mean lifetime?
Why does the doubly-magic nucleus tin-$132$ have such a short mean lifetime? Only because it is far from valley of stability?
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Is it possible for there to exist metastable exotic atoms?
I've been quite fascinated with the invention and discovery of exotic atoms such as: positronium, and muonic hydrogen etc...
Now I know positronium has a longer than usual lifetime because it is in a ...
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What is an "excited nuclear isomer"?
I have been making an excel spreadsheet of all nuclides with half-lifes 20 hours or longer. If you look on the any of Wikipedia's "Isotopes of [insert any found element here]" pages, you ...
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By how much are various dibaryon states unbound?
It has been known for a long time that the deuteron is stable but the dineutron (nn) and diproton (pp) are not. Many textbooks comment on this, but all the ones I found so far do not give quantitative ...
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Cm-244 metastable state
While searching for decay product information for Cm-244, I came across the UCSD Radionuclide Data Sheets, which lists the half life for the metastable isomer Cm-244 (34 ms), rather than the nuclear ...
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Have we found all stable nuclear isomers?
Nuclear isomers are metastable nuclear states, typically protected from decay by having very different angular momentum from the ground state. Some are very stable; my favorite $^{180m}$Ta has a half-...
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Nucleosynthesis of tantalum-isomer $^{180{\rm m1}}{\rm Ta}$
How does nucleosynthesis explain the creation of tantalum-isomer $^{180{\rm m1}}{\rm Ta}$?
Or what is the best theory to explain the existence of this?
It must be noted that the tantalum-isotope $^{...
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Creation of nuclear isomers
As I understand it, if a nucleus is excited with energy exceeding its ground state, it releases energy via gamma radiation. An example would be technitium 99m, a medical tracer with a 6 hour half life ...
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