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Mercurial shapes

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Mercury isotopes are unique in exhibiting dramatic differences in their nuclear shapes. The analysis of over more than twenty Hg isotopes now shows that this follows from the influence of single-particle effects on the collective properties of a nucleus.

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    Paul Cottle & Kirby Kemper

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Cottle, P., Kemper, K. Mercurial shapes. Nature Phys 14, 1158–1159 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-018-0302-x

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