Welcome to the Website of nuClock!
nuClock is a European project headed for an ambitious goal: the development of a scientific clock that reaches a much higher precision compared to the best clocks that are operated today in some of the world’s finest laboratories. While such clocks use the electrons of an atom as the “pendulum”, we will use the nucleus of a very special atom – Thorium-229 – for setting the rhythm. Once we get our clock working, it can be employed aboard navigation satellites, it can help to synchronize networks, and it might lead astronomers to a better understanding of the universe.
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 664732. It will run from 2015 to 2019. Stay with us: it’s sure going to be exciting!
NEWS

Lorentz symmetry tested by PTB partner

nuClock on (summer school) tour

Comprehensive study of electronic structure of Th1+ in the isomer energy region

Vienna team demonstrates all-solid-state VUV frequency comb in teamwork with TOPTICA

Optical pumping to the Th-229 isomeric state demonstrated

New paper on collective effects in Thorium-doped crystals
Brenden, Wen-Te, and Adriana of MPIK in Heidelberg have released a new paper investigating collective effects that could occur in Thorium doped crystals when excited by narrow-band coherent pulses. Here's the link to the paper. A variety of schemes are discussed with the goal of creating unique signatures of excitation which can be used to determine the detuning of the exciting laser pulses from 229Th nuclear transition energy. Other details such as multi pulsed excitation, pulse shape, phase shifting…

Theoretical and experimental work leads to a redetermination of the Th-229 isomer charge radius

Hertha-Sponer-Prize for Adriana Pálffy-Buß
