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Information on the EU-project nuClock

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Press releases

LMU press release on the 2017 PRL publication (in German)

LMU press release on the 2017 PRL publication (in English)

LMU press release on the 2016 Nature publication (in German)

LMU press release on the 2016 Nature publication (in English)

Press release by TU Wien on the announcement of nuClock (in German)

Press release by LMU Munich on the announcement of nuClock (in German)

Coverage of our work

Chad Orzel writing for Forbes.com, find the link here, or read the text in a compiled pdf file here.

Image gallery

Simon Stellmer (left) and Thorsten Schumm (right) posing behind one of the laser set-ups at TU Vienna.

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A 229Th-doped crystal, which could form the center piece of one (out of many) possible realizations of a future nuclear clock.

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Simon Stellmer (left) and Thorsten Schumm (right), co-ordinators of the project.

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The official nuClock logo.

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The linear Paul trap of the PTB experiment, capable of trapping 229Th+ ions.

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The ion trap built into a vacuum chamber.

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Addition of a laser system to cool and manipulate the ions.

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PhD student David-Marcel Meier adjusting the TiSa laser system.

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Press contact

Contact details:

Univ. Prof. Dr. Thorsten Schumm
TU Wien
Atominstitut
Stadionallee 2
1020 VIENNA, AUSTRIA
Tel. +43 158 801 141 896
Fax. +43 158 801 141 99
schumm@thorium.at