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the nucleus of a heavy element

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  • But only the Russians are doing heavy-ion fusion research in a serious way.
  • A new powerful heavy-ion facility is being planned for the Riken Institute of Physical and Chemical Research in
  • One example of such a cascade facility is the GANIL accelerator complex in Caen, where two sector focusing cyclotrons are used for heavy-ion physics.
  • And sure, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) may one day soon be the most powerful heavy-ion collider in the world (although it will spend most of its time investigating...
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