Opportunities for fundamental physics research with radioactive molecules

• DOI: 10.1088/1361-6633/ad1e39
• Publication Date: 2024-01-12T22:57:28Z
• Authors: Gordon Arrowsmith...; Michail Athanasak...; Mia Au; Jochen Ballof; Robert Berger; Anastasia Borsche...; Alexander A Breier; Fritz Buchinger; Dmitry Budker; Luke Caldwell; Christopher Charles; Nike Dattani; Ruben P de Groote; David DeMille; Timo Dickel; Jacek Dobaczewski; Christoph E Düllmann; Ephraim Eliav; Jonathan Engel; Mingyu Fan; Victor Flambaum; Kieran T Flanagan; Alyssa N Gaiser; Ronald F Garcia Ruiz; Konstantin Gaul; Thomas F Giesen; Jacinda S M Ginges; Alexander Gottberg; Gerald Gwinner; Reinhard Heinke; Steven Hoekstra; Jason D Holt; Nicholas R Hutzler; Andrew Jayich; Jonas Karthein; Kyle G Leach; Kirk W Madison; Stephan Malbrunot...; Takayuki Miyagi; Iain D Moore; Scott Moroch; Petr Navratil; Witold Nazarewicz; Gerda Neyens; Eric B Norrgard; Nicholas Nusgart; Lukáš F Pašteka; Alexander N Petrov; Wolfgang R Plaß; Roy A Ready; Moritz Pascal Reiter; Mikael Reponen; Sebastian Rothe; Marianna S Safronova; Christoph Scheide...; Andrea Shindler; Jaideep T Singh; Leonid V Skripnikov; Anatoly V Titov; Silviu-Marian Udr...; Shane G Wilkins; Xiaofei Yang
• Keywords: Nuclear astrophysics; Atomic nucleus

Abstract Molecules containing short-lived, radioactive nuclei are uniquely positioned to enable a wide range of scientific discoveries in the areas fundamental symmetries, astrophysics, nuclear structure, and chemistry. Recent advances ability create, cool, control complex molecules down quantum level, along with recent upcoming species production at several facilities around world, create compelling opportunity coordinate combine these efforts bring precision measurement extreme nuclei. In this manuscript, we review case for studying molecules, discuss atomic, molecular, nuclear, astrophysical, chemical which provide foundation their study, describe where will be produced, an outlook future nascent field.