Opportunities for Fundamental Physics Research with Radioactive Molecules
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.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2302.02165,
title = {Opportunities for Fundamental Physics Research with Radioactive Molecules},
author = {Gordon Arrowsmith-Kron and Michail Athanasakis-Kaklamanakis and Mia Au and Jochen Ballof and Robert Berger and Anastasia Borschevsky and Alexander A. Breier and Fritz Buchinger and Dmitry Budker and Luke Caldwell and Christopher Charles and Nike Dattani and Ruben P. de Groote and David DeMille and Timo Dickel and Jacek Dobaczewski and Christoph E. Düllmann and Ephraim Eliav and Jon Engel and Mingyu Fan and Victor Flambaum and Kieran T. Flanagan and Alyssa Gaiser and Ronald Garcia Ruiz and Konstantin Gaul and Thomas F. Giesen and Jacinda Ginges and Alexander Gottberg and Gerald Gwinner and Reinhard Heinke and Steven Hoekstra and Jason D. Holt and Nicholas R. Hutzler and Andrew Jayich and Jonas Karthein and Kyle G. Leach and Kirk Madison and Stephan Malbrunot-Ettenauer and Takayuki Miyagi and Iain D. Moore and Scott Moroch and Petr Navrátil and Witold Nazarewicz and Gerda Neyens and Eric Norrgard and Nicholas Nusgart and Lukáš F. Pašteka and Alexander N. Petrov and Wolfgang Plass and Roy A. Ready and Moritz Pascal Reiter and Mikael Reponen and Sebastian Rothe and Marianna Safronova and Christoph Scheidenberger and Andrea Shindler and Jaideep T. Singh and Leonid V. Skripnikov and Anatoly V. Titov and Silviu-Marian Udrescu and Shane G. Wilkins and Xiaofei Yang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.02165},
year = {2024}
}