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In-beam spectroscopy reveals competing nuclear shapes in the rare isotope <sup>62</sup>Cr

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Nature Physics, Published online: 18 October 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02680-0

Islands of inversions are regions of the nuclear chart where deformed configurations are energetically favoured over spherical ones. Now experiments show that 62Cr assumes different shapes with excitation energy, which is a signature of such islands.