Recently, Professor Niu Yifei’s team from the School of Nuclear Science and Technology and the Frontiers Science Center for Rare Isotopes at Lanzhou University (LZU), in collaboration with Professor Li Jianxing’s team from the School of Physics at Xi’an Jiaotong University, proposed a novel scheme based on regulating nuclear giant multipole resonances by using electron probes to solve a long-standing problem in nuclear physics “How to measure isovector giant resonances with higher multipolarity”. The research findings, titled “Angular Momentum Resolved Inelastic Electron Scattering for Nuclear Giant Resonances”, were published in the prestigious physics journal Physical Review Letters.
This study highlights the critical role of orbital angular momentum in modulating nuclear transitions, offering new perspectives for understanding nuclear structures. It also paves the way for innovative methods to generate and detect high-energy vortex electrons, stimulating further exploration into applications of vortex electron beams in advanced nuclear physics research.
Paper Link: https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.134.052501
