Latest publication from DESIREE User Michael Gatchell in Nature Communications. In this article, Gatchell et al have studied the survival of reactive fragments of the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) coronene, where individual C atoms have been knocked out in hard collisions with He atoms. Ionic fragments are stored in the DESIREE cryogenic ion-beam storage ring for up to one second. May the defective PAHs survive? Read the full paper here.

More stories behind the paper? Read the Nature blog post.