Home News Colloquia colloquien_SS_2017 Archiv colloquium series summer term 2017 Speaker: Prof. Dr. Thorsten Schumm Host: MPQ Manipulating nuclei with laser light: the quest of Thorium-229 (Prof. T. Schumm) Date: Jun 27, 2017 Time: 02:30 PM - 03:30 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Prof. Dr. Thorsten Schumm Vienna Center for Quantum Science and Technology (VCQ), Austria Room: Herbert Walther Lecture Hall Host: MPQ The radio isotope Thorium-229 is expected to present a remarkably low-energy excited (isomer) state of the nucleus which is expected around 7.8(5) eV. [more]