She believes that embracing nuclear energy is the step that will take society closer to a safer environment. To fight the current climate crisis, Sensharma explains that there is a need to reduce carbon emissions and find a way to progress using sustainable resources. In the present age of technology, society is constantly evolving and moving towards advancement. She says that spreading awareness is the only way to counter the fear and stigma associated with nuclear energy. Physics PhD student Nirupama Sensharma’s vision in developing ‘Nuclear Energy – The Better Energy’ is to bridge the gap between her research as a nuclear scientist and her responsibilities towards society. Nuclear Energy – The Better Energy is an initiative to promote knowledge and awareness about the peaceful uses of nuclear energy. Physics graduate student Nirupama Sensharma works to create nuclear energy awareness The team detected the 187Au nucleus wobbling about an axis that was neither its longest nor its shortest, but was of an intermediate length - the first clear observation of such behaviour.Ĭlick here to see the original highlight on Nature. This makes 187Au the heaviest known wobbling isotope.
Analysis of gamma rays that the nuclei produced as they decayed indicated that the nuclei were wobbling. Nirupama Sensharma at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana and her colleagues bombarded a ytterbium target with fluorine ions to produce the form, or isotope, of gold called gold-187.
Previous observations detected wobbling around only either the longest or shortest axis of nuclei having fewer than 170 nucleons. In an excited state, some nuclei with an odd number of nucleons exhibit a complex wobble - like that of a spinning top - because of their imbalanced geometry. Scientists catch their first glimpse of an intricate type of nuclear movement.įor the first time, physicists have clearly observed a rare and complex motion of atomic nuclei called longitudinal wobbling.Īn atomic nucleus is composed of protons and neutrons, collectively called nucleons. Here is the highlight: Rarer than gold: wobbling gold Nirupama Sensharma’s publication Longitudinal Wobbling Motion in 187Au was highlighted in Nature on February 13, 2020. View here.Ģ020 Sensharma’s research featured in nature Originally published at isnap.nd.edu on March 15, 2021. Browne this award is presented annually to an outstanding Nuclear Physics graduate student who has exemplified Professor Browne’s work ethic. Through his hard work and dedication he steered the lab through the most successful period in its history. Browne served as the director for the Nuclear Structure Lab for nearly thirty years. Browne Memorial Award in Nuclear Physics for her work on wobbling motion in gold nuclei and outstanding outreach effort through her project Nuclear Energy – The Better Energy.Ĭornelius P. Nirupama Sensharma received the 2021 Cornelius P. View here.Ģ021 Nirupama Sensharma receives the 2021 Browne Award Originally published at isnap.nd.edu on December 8, 2022. Akaa Daniel Ayangeakaa at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is currently a Postdoctoral Research Associate working with Prof. Browne Memorial Award in Nuclear Physics, awarded by the University of Notre Dame Graduate School and the Department of Physics and Astronomy respectively. Sensharma was also the recipient of the 2021 Graduate Research and Dissertation Award and the 2021 Cornelius P. Her dissertation was carried out under the supervision of Prof. Sensharma makes several novel insights on wobbling, such as the coexistence of longitudinal and transverse wobbling modes in a single nucleus and establishes nuclear triaxiality as a widespread phenomenon throughout the nuclear chart.
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