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@article{Wense2016DirectDO,
  title={Direct detection of the 229Th nuclear clock transition},
  author={Lars von der Wense and Benedict Seiferle and Mustapha Laatiaoui and J{\"u}rgen B. Neumayr and Hans-J{\"o}rg Maier and H-F. Wirth and Ch. Mokry and J{\"o}rg Runke and Klaus Eberhardt and Christoph Emanuel D{\"u}llmann and Norbert Trautmann and Peter G. Thirolf},
  journal={Nature},
  year={2016},
  volume={533},
  pages={47-51},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:205248786}
}

The direct detection of this nuclear state of 229mTh is reported, which is further confirmation of the existence of the isomer and lays the foundation for precise studies of its decay parameters.

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Direct detection of the thorium-229 nuclear-clock transition is achieved, placing new limits on the transition energy and measuring the state's half-life, and these results suggest that nuclear quantum optics and nuclear lasers based on this transition may be plausible possibilities.

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