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CERN Accelerating science

neutron stars

ISOLTRAP’s MR-ToF mass separator to plumb a neutron star

by Robert Wolf for the ISOLTRAP collaboration

Measurements with ISOLTRAP at ISOLDE-CERN play a key-role in studying the interior of neutron stars and help building an equation of state for this special class of object.