The Isomer League
Blog of the Isotopes (noreply@blogger.com)
My University produced a press release yesterday highlighting three of my colleagues and their industry in discovering nuclear isomers. Isomers (for nuclear physicists) are long-lived excited states of nuclei that decay with different properties (such as half lives) to the ground states or other excited states in the same nucleus.
The industriousness of my colleagues comes from a league table of coauthorship of isomer discovery papers. Surrey authors take three of the top 10 positions in the...