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1Organisation Européenne pour la Recherche Nucléaire (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
2Katholieke Universiteit (KU) Leuven, Institute for Nuclear and Radiation Physics, Leuven, Belgium
3Groupement d Intérêt Public ARRONAX, Nantes, France
4European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Nuclear Safety and Security, Karlsruhe, Germany
5National Physical Laboratory, Teddington, United Kingdom
6Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany
7Pakistan Institute of Nuclear Science and Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan
8Institut Laue Langevin, Grenoble, France
9Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen, Switzerland
The CERN-MEDICIS (MEDical Isotopes Collected from ISolde) facility has delivered its first radioactive ion beam at CERN (Switzerland) in December 2017 to support the research and development in nuclear medicine using non-conventional radionuclides. Since then, fourteen institutes, including CERN, have joined the collaboration to drive the scientific program of this unique installation a
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Nesaraja evaluates mass chains assigned to nuclear data program centers like ORNL. She selects best values for archiving in a specialized nuclear structure database and publication. (Credit: Carlos Jones/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy)
Nuclear physicist Caroline Nesaraja of the Department of Energy s Oak Ridge National Laboratory evaluates nuclear data vital to applied and basic sciences. Her work ensures that the scientific community has the best nuclear data for fundamental research and applications including medical isotopes, nuclear energy and national and international security. At the heart of nuclear data evaluation is recommending values for a range of nuclear properties for the community to adopt and use, said Nesaraja. Her exacting evaluation process starts with gathering extensive nuclear structure and decay data from experimental measurements published in peer-reviewed journals.