Discovery of 40Mg and 42Al suggests neutron drip-line slant towards heavier isotopes

Nature

Volumn 449, Issue 7165, 2007, Pages 1022-1024

  Baumann, T ^a   Amthor, A M ^a,b   Bazin, D ^a   Brown, B A ^a,b   Folden III, C M ^a   Gade, A ^a,b   Ginter, T N ^a   Hausmann, M ^a   Matos M ^a   Morrissey, D J ^a,b   Portillo, M ^a   Schiller, A ^a   Sherrill, B M ^a,b   Stolz, A ^a   Tarasov, O B ^a,c   Thoennessen, M ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c JOINT INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; ALUMINUM 42; CHEMICAL COMPOUND; ISOTOPE; MAGNESIUM; MAGNESIUM 40; PROTON; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALUMINUM; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FUNDAMENTAL PARTICLE; MAGNESIUM; QUANTUM MECHANICS; STABLE ISOTOPE;

ARTICLE; ATOM; BINDING ASSAY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MASS ACTION; NEUTRON; NUCLEAR PHYSICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE;

EID: 35548952310     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature06213     Document Type: Article

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