100 Years of Nuclear Isomers

In terms of societal applications the nuclear isomer Tc-99m is most famous with about 30 million diagnostic procedures performed per year with Tc-99m radiopharmaceuticals. However, there are also less famous isomers with applications in nuclear medicine as well as infamous isomers that should be avoided as radionuclidic impurity. A review will be given on past, present and future of nuclear...

With their successful application of nuclear magnetic resonance NMR to investigate the structure of atoms in liquids and solids Felix Bloch and Edward Mills Purcell (Nobel prize 1952) opened new ways to study local aspects in solids via the hyperfine interaction of a nuclear moment with extra-nuclear fields. While for roughly half the elements no appropriate nuclei are available because of...

The exotic neutron-rich region around and beyond N=126 has long been pursued for investigation in many radioactive ion beam (RIB) facilities and it is still one of the major milestones of the latest generation of RIB laboratories. Because of the challenges in accessing the region due to the technical difficulties in producing, separating, and investigating neutron-rich N⩾ 126 nuclei, the...

Properties of deformed, neutron-rich nuclei in the A~110 and 160 mass regions are important for achieving better understanding of the nuclear structure where little is known owing to difficulties in the production of these nuclei at the present RIB facilities. They are essential ingredient in the interpretation of the r-process nucleosynthesis and are needed in fission-like applications since...