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"We have a very specific prediction, which until now didn't exist. Previous theories were always based on, 'Let's assume that this is happening, and if it's happening, then this probably is going to be seen.' We didn't do that. We simply put in the equations of motions known for many decades in nuclear physics with high precision, plus quantum mechanics, nothing else."
Published in PRL, a very good journal for this field. I'm surprised this type of simulations hadn't been done yet. Guess it was a matter of computational resources to properly account for many body physics.
Is this experiment carried out at the LHC in Switzerland, where they accelerate the particles or is it something else?
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Those are just computer simulations, no experiment just yet. And no, the LHC is probably not the place they will try to confirm this. Here they're talking about splitting large atoms. At the LHC, they study more what's happening at the subatomic level, i.e. elementary particles.
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Thanks for the clarification
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Welcome. Feel free to ask any time. This is not my field of work, but my colleague next doors is part of one of the LHC experiments.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Cotton 2 Nov
Split releases massive energy—nuclear fission.
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Indeed.
An extension study would be to see what happens in the case of fusion using light atoms...
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