Coupling atomic and nuclear degrees of freedom in highly charged ions

vendredi 12 juin 2026, 10:00 → 11:00 Europe/Paris

100/0-A018 - Salle Library (IJCLab)

Nuclear transitions of low energy can couple efficiently to the atomic shell in a variety of processes such as internal conversion, its inverse process nuclear excitation by electron capture, nuclear excitation by electron transition or electronic bridge. The talk will illustrate a few such examples involving highly charged ions. First, the talk will discuss the current status of nuclear excitation by electron capture experiments and recent proposals. Second, it will follow theoretical developments on employing electronic bridge processes for the driving the nuclear clock transition in 229-Th. This nucleus possesses the lowest known nuclear transition energy and promises a novel and unprecedently precise nuclear clock.