<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/pre-go-live-resources/_migration/_dev-testing/2026-08-21/faculty-research/researchers-explore-exotic-isotopes.html" dsn="news"><pubDate>11/20/2024</pubDate><title>Researchers Explore Exotic Isotopes</title><excerpt>Westmont students Josef Bingener ’25 and Ethan Camp ’27 have participated in a novel nuclear physics experiment with Professor Robert Haring-Kaye. They traveled to Florida State University (FSU) to study the structural properties of an exotic isotope of gallium (72Ga) that survives for only a few hours before decaying to a different isotope.</excerpt><author>Scott Craig</author><image>
            
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