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Associate Professor, Research Center for Nuclear Physics, Osaka University *Profile is at the time of the award.
2023Inamori Research GrantsScience & Engineering
This research may turn the world on its head!?
The objective of this study is to measure the spatial distribution of nuclear wave functions by using a nuclear beam as a probe. This method enables the direct observation of wave-function distributions and can therefore be regarded as a “nuclear microscope.” While the spatial resolution of conventional electron microscopes is on the order of 0.1 nm, which limits their capability to visualizing structures at the atomic scale, the present study aims to achieve a resolution of approximately 2 fm. In numerical terms, this corresponds to an improvement of about a factor of 500,000 compared to electron microscopes. This study is impactful in that it enables the observation of objects that have previously been impossible to measure.
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