Resumen de MRI hackers to probe elemental origins
In the cavernous Daresbury Laboratory in Cheshire, UK, the scanner feels a world away from its former home in the lab of Peter Mansfield at the University of Nottingham, who won a Nobel prize in 2003 for contributions to magnetic resonance imaging. The scanner is no longer state-of-the-art for medical purposes. But by chance, the size and quality of the magnetic field it can generate is almost perfect for probing the origins of cosmic chemistry, says chief MRI-hacker, David Jenkins of the University of York. The team will repeatedly bombard the target with the same type of ion to build a picture of the different energy levels in the resulting atoms, helping to predict the stabilities of the exotic forms made in supernovae.
