Perverted scientists :)

[Loren Pechtel]

Eyes on the sun: Naked thallium-205 ion decay reveals history over millions of years

The sun, the essential engine that sustains life on Earth, generates its tremendous energy through the process of nuclear fusion. At the same time, it releases a continuous stream of neutrinos—particles that serve as messengers of its internal dynamics. Although modern neutrino detectors unveil...

phys.org

What I want to know is the energy levels needed to make naked thallium. How do you manage to rip off those inner electrons??

 

[bilby]

Eyes on the sun: Naked thallium-205 ion decay reveals history over millions of years

The sun, the essential engine that sustains life on Earth, generates its tremendous energy through the process of nuclear fusion. At the same time, it releases a continuous stream of neutrinos—particles that serve as messengers of its internal dynamics. Although modern neutrino detectors unveil...

phys.org

What I want to know is the energy levels needed to make naked thallium. How do you manage to rip off those inner electrons??

When your device is capable of smashing up nucleii, mere electrons are a trivial obstacle. The strong force kicks sand in the face of the electromagnetic force.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

Eyes on the sun: Naked thallium-205 ion decay reveals history over millions of years

The sun, the essential engine that sustains life on Earth, generates its tremendous energy through the process of nuclear fusion. At the same time, it releases a continuous stream of neutrinos—particles that serve as messengers of its internal dynamics. Although modern neutrino detectors unveil...

phys.org

What I want to know is the energy levels needed to make naked thallium. How do you manage to rip off those inner electrons??

When your device is capable of smashing up nucleii, mere electrons are a trivial obstacle. The strong force kicks sand in the face of the electromagnetic force.

Yeah, but how do you keep it from simply grabbing them?

 

[bilby]

Eyes on the sun: Naked thallium-205 ion decay reveals history over millions of years

The sun, the essential engine that sustains life on Earth, generates its tremendous energy through the process of nuclear fusion. At the same time, it releases a continuous stream of neutrinos—particles that serve as messengers of its internal dynamics. Although modern neutrino detectors unveil...

phys.org

What I want to know is the energy levels needed to make naked thallium. How do you manage to rip off those inner electrons??

When your device is capable of smashing up nucleii, mere electrons are a trivial obstacle. The strong force kicks sand in the face of the electromagnetic force.

Yeah, but how do you keep it from simply grabbing them?

From where?

An accelerator is just a bunch of magnetic fields; If you can't arrange an electron free zone in such a device, you aren't trying.

 

[Shadowy Man]

Eyes on the sun: Naked thallium-205 ion decay reveals history over millions of years

The sun, the essential engine that sustains life on Earth, generates its tremendous energy through the process of nuclear fusion. At the same time, it releases a continuous stream of neutrinos—particles that serve as messengers of its internal dynamics. Although modern neutrino detectors unveil...

phys.org

What I want to know is the energy levels needed to make naked thallium. How do you manage to rip off those inner electrons??

When your device is capable of smashing up nucleii, mere electrons are a trivial obstacle. The strong force kicks sand in the face of the electromagnetic force.

Yeah, but how do you keep it from simply grabbing them?

It seems they know how to do this:

"Decades of continuous advancements in accelerator technology made it possible to generate an intense and pure 205Tl81+ ion beam and measure its decay with high precision," said Professor Yuri A. Litvinov, spokesperson for the experiment and principal investigator of the European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant ASTRUm.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

Eyes on the sun: Naked thallium-205 ion decay reveals history over millions of years

The sun, the essential engine that sustains life on Earth, generates its tremendous energy through the process of nuclear fusion. At the same time, it releases a continuous stream of neutrinos—particles that serve as messengers of its internal dynamics. Although modern neutrino detectors unveil...

phys.org

What I want to know is the energy levels needed to make naked thallium. How do you manage to rip off those inner electrons??

When your device is capable of smashing up nucleii, mere electrons are a trivial obstacle. The strong force kicks sand in the face of the electromagnetic force.

Yeah, but how do you keep it from simply grabbing them?

From where?

An accelerator is just a bunch of magnetic fields; If you can't arrange an electron free zone in such a device, you aren't trying.

The problem is pair production only needs a bit over 1 MeV, puny compared to the energy of the accelerator.

 

[Shadowy Man]

Eyes on the sun: Naked thallium-205 ion decay reveals history over millions of years

The sun, the essential engine that sustains life on Earth, generates its tremendous energy through the process of nuclear fusion. At the same time, it releases a continuous stream of neutrinos—particles that serve as messengers of its internal dynamics. Although modern neutrino detectors unveil...

phys.org

What I want to know is the energy levels needed to make naked thallium. How do you manage to rip off those inner electrons??

When your device is capable of smashing up nucleii, mere electrons are a trivial obstacle. The strong force kicks sand in the face of the electromagnetic force.

Yeah, but how do you keep it from simply grabbing them?

From where?

An accelerator is just a bunch of magnetic fields; If you can't arrange an electron free zone in such a device, you aren't trying.

The problem is pair production only needs a bit over 1 MeV, puny compared to the energy of the accelerator.

Before you start making excuses why it isn’t possible, why don’t you look into what Professor Yuri A. Litvinov already knows that does indeed make it possible.

The experimental measurement of the half-life of the bound-state beta decay of fully ionized 205Tl81+ions was only possible thanks to the unique capabilities of the Experimental Storage Ring (ESR) at GSI/FAIR.

The ESR is presently the only facility where such measurements are feasible.

The 205Tl81+ ions were produced using nuclear reactions in GSI/FAIR's Fragment Separator (FRS) and then stored long enough for its decay to be observed and successfully measured in the storage ring.