{"id":115759,"date":"2020-11-11T22:22:16","date_gmt":"2020-11-12T06:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/physicists-produce-worlds-first-neutron-rich-radioactive-tantalum-ions"},"modified":"2020-11-11T22:22:16","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T06:22:16","slug":"physicists-produce-worlds-first-neutron-rich-radioactive-tantalum-ions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/physicists-produce-worlds-first-neutron-rich-radioactive-tantalum-ions","title":{"rendered":"Physicists produce world\u2019s first neutron-rich, radioactive tantalum ions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-produce-worlds-first-neutron-rich-radioactive-tantalum-ions.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An international team of scientists have unveiled the world\u2019s first production of a purified beam of neutron-rich, radioactive tantalum ions. This development could now allow for lab-based experiments on exploding stars helping scientists to answer long-held questions such as \u201cwhere does gold come from?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a paper published in <i>Physical Review Letters<\/i>, the University of Surrey together with its partners detail how they used a new isotope-separation facility, called KISS, which is developed and operated by the Wako Nuclear Science Centre (WNSC) in the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Japan, to make beams of heavy <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/tantalum\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">tantalum<\/a> isotopes.<\/p>\n<p>The chemical element of tantalum is extremely difficult to vaporize, so the team had to capture radioactive tantalum atoms in high-pressure argon gas, ionizing the atoms with precisely tuned lasers. A single isotope of radioactive tantalum could then be selected for detailed investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An international team of scientists have unveiled the world\u2019s first production of a purified beam of neutron-rich, radioactive tantalum ions. This development could now allow for lab-based experiments on exploding stars helping scientists to answer long-held questions such as \u201cwhere does gold come from?\u201d In a paper published in Physical Review Letters, the University of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}