Now there's another one... that might not have an electric … - Suzie Sheehy

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Now there's another one... that might not have an electric charge... The gold atom, yes. Can anyone suggest a way to get that gold atom into a particle accelerator? ...You can ionize it. Thank you. So to ionize a gold atom you can rip the electrons off or add more electrons on... Give it an electric charge, and then we can put it into a particle accelerator. So that's the kind of particles we need.

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About Suzie Sheehy

Suzanne Lyn Sheehy (born 1984) is an Australian accelerator physicist who runs research groups at the University of Oxford and the , where she is developing new s for applications in medicine.

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Alternative Names: Suzanne Sheehy • Suzanne L. Sheehy • Suzanne Lyn Sheehy • S. L. Sheehy

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