'Magic' nucleus 42Si

Nature

Volumn 435, Issue 7044, 2005, Pages 922-924

  Fridmann, J ^a   Wiedenhover I ^a   Gade, A ^b   Baby, L T ^a   Bazin, D ^b   Brown, B A ^b   Campbell, C M ^b   Cook, J M ^b   Cottle, P D ^a   Diffenderfer, E ^a   Dinca, D C ^b   Glasmacher, T ^b   Hansen, P G ^b   Kemper, K W ^a   Lecouey, J L ^b   Mueller, W F ^b   Olliver, H ^b   Rodriguez Vieitez, E ^c   Terry, J R ^b   Tostevin, J A ^d   Yoneda, K ^b   more..

^a Florida State University   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC PHYSICS; DEFORMATION; NEUTRONS; ORBITS; SHELLS (STRUCTURES); SILICON;

ATOMIC NUCLEI; PROTON ORBITS; SILICON NUCLIDE;

PROTONS;

PROTON; SILICON; SILICON 42; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

PHYSICS;

ARTICLE; ATOM; CALCULATION; MEASUREMENT; MOLECULAR STABILITY; NEUTRON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 21244505430     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature03619     Document Type: Article

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