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Powerful γ-ray detectors are revealing fresh details about the interior of the nucleus, focusing initially on cases where there is a large excess of neutrons and edging towards the neutron drip-line limit.

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Figure 1: Right on track: these germanium γ-ray detectors at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, USA, offer state-of-the-art tracking of γ-rays from nuclei.

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  1. Philip Walker is in the Department of Physics, University of Surrey, Guildford GU2 7XH, UK,

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Walker, P. Track it to the limit. Nature Phys 10, 338–339 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys2962

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