There are so many new faces in the crowd this evening (and more on the way), and a few missing ones who have flown the coup. It is hard to believe that it is already Thursday. 5 days down. 7 to go.
Leandro's team is so international. Sure, many collaborations are, but his group seems to cover a large number of hemispheres, too! I've heard tons of talks on weakly bound nuclei and how great they are, and here Leandro is talking about reactions with them. Just as you can think of 6Li as a 4He+d molecule, the 10B and 11B are weakly bound nuclei. Break up is bound to happen.
How can you tell experimentally what processes happen before fusion, whether or not these weakly bound nuclei fragment before fusing with 209Bi? Ha- you can't! Oh. Ew. One thing I did like was the span of half-lives he measured, ranging on the order of 100's of ns to hours. Sounds like a planning challenge.
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