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Arrowsmith-Kron G, Athanasakis-Kaklamanakis M, Au M, Ballof J, Berger R, Borschevsky A, Breier AA, Buchinger F, Budker D, Caldwell L, Charles C, Dattani N, de Groote RP, DeMille D, Dickel T, Dobaczewski J, Düllmann CE, Eliav E, Engel J, Fan M, Flambaum V, Flanagan KT, Gaiser AN, Garcia Ruiz RF, Gaul K, Giesen TF, Ginges JSM, Gottberg A, Gwinner G, Heinke R, Hoekstra S, Holt JD, Hutzler NR, Jayich A, Karthein J, Leach KG, Madison KW, Malbrunot-Ettenauer S, Miyagi T, Moore ID, Moroch S, Navratil P, Nazarewicz W, Neyens G, Norrgard EB, Nusgart N, Pašteka LF, N Petrov A, Plaß WR, Ready RA, Pascal Reiter M, Reponen M, Rothe S, Safronova MS, Scheidenerger C, Shindler A, Singh JT, Skripnikov LV, Titov AV, Udrescu SM, Wilkins SG, Yang X. Opportunities for fundamental physics research with radioactive molecules. REPORTS ON PROGRESS IN PHYSICS. PHYSICAL SOCIETY (GREAT BRITAIN) 2024; 87:084301. [PMID: 38215499 DOI: 10.1088/1361-6633/ad1e39] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/10/2023] [Accepted: 01/12/2024] [Indexed: 01/14/2024]
Abstract
Molecules containing short-lived, radioactive nuclei are uniquely positioned to enable a wide range of scientific discoveries in the areas of fundamental symmetries, astrophysics, nuclear structure, and chemistry. Recent advances in the ability to create, cool, and control complex molecules down to the quantum level, along with recent and upcoming advances in radioactive species production at several facilities around the world, create a compelling opportunity to coordinate and combine these efforts to bring precision measurement and control to molecules containing extreme nuclei. In this manuscript, we review the scientific case for studying radioactive molecules, discuss recent atomic, molecular, nuclear, astrophysical, and chemical advances which provide the foundation for their study, describe the facilities where these species are and will be produced, and provide an outlook for the future of this nascent field.
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Affiliation(s)
- Gordon Arrowsmith-Kron
- Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, United States of America
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- Experimental Physics Department, CERN, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland
- KU Leuven, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Instituut voor Kern- en Stralingsfysica, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium
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- CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
- Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Mainz, Germany
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- Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, United States of America
- Accelerator Systems Department, CERN, 1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland
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- Fachbereich Chemie, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Hans-Meerwein-Straße 4, 35032 Marburg, Germany
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- Van Swinderen Institute for Particle Physics and Gravity, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Institute of Physics, University of Kassel, Heinrich-Plett-Str. 40, 34132 Kassel, Germany
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- Helmholtz-Institut, GSI Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung and Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz 55128, Germany
- Department of Physics, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720-7300, United States of America
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- JILA, NIST and University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, United States of America
- Department of Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, United States of America
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- TRIUMF, 4004 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 2A3, Canada
- University of Western Ontario, 1151 Richmond St. N., London, Ontario N6A 5B7, Canada
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- HPQC Labs, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
- HPQC College, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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- Instituut voor Kern- en Stralingsfysica, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
- Department of Physics, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
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- University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States of America
- Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, United States of America
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- GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, 64291 Darmstadt, Germany
- II. Physikalisches Institut, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, 35392 Gießen, Germany
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- School of Physics, Engineering and Technology, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD, United Kingdom
- Institute of Theoretical Physics, Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, ul. Pasteura 5, PL-02-093 Warsaw, Poland
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- Department of Chemistry-TRIGA Site, Johannes Gutenberg University, Fritz-Strassmann-Weg 2, 55128 Mainz, Germany
- GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Planckstr. 1, 64291 Darmstadt, Germany
- Helmholtz Institute Mainz, Staudingerweg 18, 55128 Mainz, Germany
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- School of Chemistry, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3255, United States of America
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, United States of America
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- Photon Science Institute, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, United Kingdom
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- Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, United States of America
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, United States of America
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- Fachbereich Chemie, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Hans-Meerwein-Straße 4, 35032 Marburg, Germany
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- Institute of Physics, University of Kassel, Heinrich-Plett-Str. 40, 34132 Kassel, Germany
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- School of Mathematics and Physics, The University of Queensland, Brisbane QLD 4072, Australia
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB R3T 3M9, Canada
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- Van Swinderen Institute for Particle Physics and Gravity, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
- Nikhef, National Institute for Subatomic Physics, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- TRIUMF, 4004 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 2A3, Canada
- Department of Physics, McGill University, Montreal, QC H3A 2T8, Canada
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- California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, United States of America
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, United States of America
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, United States of America
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- Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, United States of America
- Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO 80401, United States of America
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T1Z1, Canada
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- TRIUMF, 4004 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 2A3, Canada
- Department of Physics, University of Toronto, 60 St. George St., Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Accelerator Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä 40014, Finland
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, United States of America
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- TRIUMF, 4004 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 2A3, Canada
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- Facility for Rare Isotope Beams and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, United States of America
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- KU Leuven, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Instituut voor Kern- en Stralingsfysica, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium
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- Sensor Science Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899, United States of America
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- Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, United States of America
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- Van Swinderen Institute for Particle Physics and Gravity, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
- Department of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia
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- Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute named by B.P. Konstantinov of National Research Center 'Kurchatov Institute' (NRC 'Kurchatov Institute'-PNPI), 1 Orlova roscha mcr., Gatchina 188300, Leningrad Region, Russia
- Saint Petersburg State University, 7/9 Universitetskaya nab., St. Petersburg 199034, Russia
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- GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, 64291 Darmstadt, Germany
- II. Physikalisches Institut, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, 35392 Gießen, Germany
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, United States of America
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- School of Physics & Astronomy, The University of Edinburgh, Peter Guthrie Tait Road, EH9 3FD Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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- Accelerator Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä 40014, Finland
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716, United States of America
- Joint Quantum Institute, National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of Maryland, Gaithersburg, MD 20742, United States of America
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- GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, 64291 Darmstadt, Germany
- II. Physikalisches Institut, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, 35392 Gießen, Germany
- Helmholtz Forschungsakademie Hessen für FAIR (HFHF), Campus Gießen, Gießen, Germany
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- Facility for Rare Isotope Beams & Physics Department, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, United States of America
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- Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United States of America
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- Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute named by B.P. Konstantinov of National Research Center 'Kurchatov Institute' (NRC 'Kurchatov Institute'-PNPI), 1 Orlova roscha mcr., Gatchina 188300, Leningrad Region, Russia
- Saint Petersburg State University, 7/9 Universitetskaya nab., St. Petersburg 199034, Russia
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- Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute named by B.P. Konstantinov of National Research Center 'Kurchatov Institute' (NRC 'Kurchatov Institute'-PNPI), 1 Orlova roscha mcr., Gatchina 188300, Leningrad Region, Russia
- Saint Petersburg State University, 7/9 Universitetskaya nab., St. Petersburg 199034, Russia
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, United States of America
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, United States of America
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- School of Physics and State Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Technology, Peking University, Beijing 100871, People's Republic of China
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Belley A, Yao JM, Bally B, Pitcher J, Engel J, Hergert H, Holt JD, Miyagi T, Rodríguez TR, Romero AM, Stroberg SR, Zhang X. Ab Initio Uncertainty Quantification of Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay in ^{76}Ge. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2024; 132:182502. [PMID: 38759198 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.132.182502] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/16/2023] [Revised: 03/02/2024] [Accepted: 03/21/2024] [Indexed: 05/19/2024]
Abstract
The observation of neutrinoless double-beta (0νββ) decay would offer proof of lepton number violation, demonstrating that neutrinos are Majorana particles, while also helping us understand why there is more matter than antimatter in the Universe. If the decay is driven by the exchange of the three known light neutrinos, a discovery would, in addition, link the observed decay rate to the neutrino mass scale through a theoretical quantity known as the nuclear matrix element (NME). Accurate values of the NMEs for all nuclei considered for use in 0νββ experiments are therefore crucial for designing and interpreting those experiments. Here, we report the first comprehensive ab initio uncertainty quantification of the 0νββ-decay NME, in the key nucleus ^{76}Ge. Our method employs nuclear strong and weak interactions derived within chiral effective field theory and recently developed many-body emulators. Our result, with a conservative treatment of uncertainty, is an NME of 2.60_{-1.36}^{+1.28}, which, together with the best-existing half-life sensitivity and phase-space factor, sets an upper limit for effective neutrino mass of 187_{-62}^{+205} meV. The result is important for designing next-generation germanium detectors aiming to cover the entire inverted hierarchy region of neutrino masses.
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- A Belley
- TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai 519082, People's Republic of China
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- ESNT, IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27516-3255, USA
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- Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824-1321, USA
- Department of Physics & Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824-1321, USA
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- TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Department of Physics, McGill University, Montréal, Quebec, Canada
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- Technische Universität Darmstadt, Department of Physics, 64289 Darmstadt, Germany
- ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, 64291 Darmstadt, Germany
- Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Saupfercheckweg 1, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Departamento de Estructura de la Materia, Física Térmica y Electrónica, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, E-28040 Madrid, Spain
- Departamento de Física Teórica, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, E-28049 Madrid, Spain
- Centro de Investigación Avanzada en Física Fundamental-CIAFF-UAM, E-28049 Madrid, Spain
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- Departament de Física Quàntica i Astrofísica (FQA), Universitat de Barcelona (UB), c. Martí i Franqués, 1, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
- Institut de Ciències del Cosmos (ICCUB), Universitat de Barcelona (UB), c. Martí i Franqués, 1, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556, USA
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai 519082, People's Republic of China
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Novario S, Gysbers P, Engel J, Hagen G, Jansen GR, Morris TD, Navrátil P, Papenbrock T, Quaglioni S. Coupled-Cluster Calculations of Neutrinoless Double-β Decay in ^{48}Ca. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2021; 126:182502. [PMID: 34018796 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.126.182502] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/23/2020] [Revised: 01/15/2021] [Accepted: 04/06/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
Abstract
We use coupled-cluster theory and nuclear interactions from chiral effective field theory to compute the nuclear matrix element for the neutrinoless double-β decay of ^{48}Ca. Benchmarks with the no-core shell model in several light nuclei inform us about the accuracy of our approach. For ^{48}Ca we find a relatively small matrix element. We also compute the nuclear matrix element for the two-neutrino double-β decay of ^{48}Ca with a quenching factor deduced from two-body currents in recent ab initio calculation of the Ikeda sum rule in ^{48}Ca [Gysbers et al., Nat. Phys. 15, 428 (2019)NPAHAX1745-247310.1038/s41567-019-0450-7].
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- S Novario
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA
- Physics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
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- TRIUMF, 4004 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z1, Canada
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- Department of Physics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27514, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA
- Physics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
- TRIUMF, 4004 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
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- Physics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
- National Center for Computational Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
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- Physics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
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- TRIUMF, 4004 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA
- Physics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, P.O. Box 808, L-414, Livermore, California 94551, USA
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