{"id":208995,"date":"2025-03-18T04:17:20","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T09:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/octupole-excitation-research-provides-direct-evidence-for-rare-pulsing-pear-shapes-in-gadolinium-nuclei"},"modified":"2025-03-18T04:17:20","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T09:17:20","slug":"octupole-excitation-research-provides-direct-evidence-for-rare-pulsing-pear-shapes-in-gadolinium-nuclei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/octupole-excitation-research-provides-direct-evidence-for-rare-pulsing-pear-shapes-in-gadolinium-nuclei","title":{"rendered":"Octupole excitation: Research provides direct evidence for rare, pulsing pear shapes in gadolinium nuclei"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/octupole-excitation-research-provides-direct-evidence-for-rare-pulsing-pear-shapes-in-gadolinium-nuclei.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the first time, scientists have acquired direct evidence of rare, pulsing pear-shaped structures within atomic nuclei of the rare-earth element gadolinium, thanks to new research led by the University of Surrey, the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) and the IFIN-HH research institute in Bucharest, Romania.<\/p>\n<p>The study, <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.aps.org\/prl\/abstract\/10.1103\/PhysRevLett.134.092501\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Physical Review Letters<\/i>, provides definitive proof of a strong collective \u201coctupole excitation\u201d in the nucleus of gadolinium-150, a long-lived radioactive isotope of this rare-earth element, which is used in applications such as superconductors, nuclear power operations and MRI contrast materials.<\/p>\n<p>The experimental signature is interpreted as the protons and neutrons inside the atomic nucleus vibrating in a coordinated pattern, resulting in a pulsing, asymmetric, pear-shaped structure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time, scientists have acquired direct evidence of rare, pulsing pear-shaped structures within atomic nuclei of the rare-earth element gadolinium, thanks to new research led by the University of Surrey, the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) and the IFIN-HH research institute in Bucharest, Romania. The study, published in Physical Review Letters, provides definitive proof [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,873],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-nuclear-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208995","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}