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University of Illinois at Chicago Ph.D. student Li-Bang Wang (right) and postdoctoral fellow Peter Mueller set up the equipment to trap and detect the helium-6 nuclei.  

Most precise measurement ever made of helium-6 charge radius

Researchers in Argonne's Physics Division teamed up to conduct the most precise measurement ever made of the charge radius — one aspect of the size — of the Borromean nucleus of helium-6. More...

 

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