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Physics of the Nucleus


Nuclear magnetism - magnetic moment measurements
Professor Andrew Stuchbery, Emeritus Professor Tibor Kibedi, Professor Gregory Lane, Dr Brendan McCormick


Nuclear batteries: Energy-storage applications of nuclear isomers


Exotic nuclear structure towards the neutron dripline


Paving the way to study the chronology of the early solar system
Dr Stefan Pavetich, Dr Michaela Froehlich , A/Prof Stephen Tims, Mr Dominik Koll


Ultra-fast lifetime measurements of nuclear excited states
Professor Gregory Lane, Dr AJ Mitchell, Professor Andrew Stuchbery, Emeritus Professor Tibor Kibedi


Quantum drivers to nuclear fission


Directional dark matter measurements with CYGNUS
Dr Lindsey Bignell, Dr Peter McNamara , Dr Zuzana Slavkovska, Professor Gregory Lane


Time dependence of nuclear fusion


Understanding energy dissipation in colliding quantum many-body systems
Dr Kaitlin Cook, Dr Ian Carter, Professor Mahananda Dasgupta, Professor David Hinde


Nuclei that fall apart: the role of sub-zeptosecond processes in reactions of weakly-bound nuclei
Dr Kaitlin Cook, Professor Mahananda Dasgupta, Professor David Hinde


Nuclear structure studies with particle transfer reactions
Dr AJ Mitchell, Professor Gregory Lane, Professor Andrew Stuchbery, Emeritus Professor Tibor Kibedi


Nuclear lifetimes - developing new apparatus and methods
Professor Andrew Stuchbery, Emeritus Professor Tibor Kibedi, Professor Gregory Lane, Mr Ben Coombes


Nuclear vibrations in near-spherical and deformed nuclei
Professor Andrew Stuchbery, Professor Gregory Lane, Dr AJ Mitchell, Mr Ben Coombes


Measuring and modelling free-ion hyperfine fields
Professor Andrew Stuchbery, Emeritus Professor Tibor Kibedi, Dr Brendan McCormick


Radioimpurities in particle detectors for dark matter studies
Dr Michaela Froehlich , Dr Zuzana Slavkovska, A/Prof Stephen Tims, Professor Gregory Lane


Effect of nuclear structure on dark matter-nucleus interactions


Towards a global understanding of nuclear fission
Dr Kaitlin Cook, Professor David Hinde, Professor Mahananda Dasgupta
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