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Publications (8)

nucl-ex2026

Exploration for Astromers near Sn with the Canadian Penning Trap

A. A. Valverde, S. Cupp, A. Gross +26

Nuclear isomers can have significant impacts on astrophysical nucleosynthesis processes, with recent efforts demonstrating that the population of isomeric states with different hal…

nucl-ex2026

Precise Mass Measurement of the La-Ce-Pr isobaric chain

B. Liu, M. Brodeur, J. A. Clark +13

Penning trap mass measurements of La, Ce, and Pr were performed with the Canadian Penning Trap (CPT) at the CARIBU facility of Argonne National Laboratory u…

nucl-ex2024

Investigating the effects of precise mass measurements of Ru and Pd isotopes on machine learning mass modeling

W. S. Porter, B. Liu, D. Ray +19

Atomic masses are a foundational quantity in our understanding of nuclear structure, astrophysics and fundamental symmetries. The long-standing goal of creating a predictive global…

nucl-ex2026

Precision Mass Measurements of \textsuperscript{130}Te, \textsuperscript{130}Sn, and Their Impact on Models for R-Process Nucleosynthesis

A. Cannon, W. S. Porter, A. A. Valverde +12

The astrophysical rapid neutron capture nucleosynthesis process (r-process) remains an active area of research due to the fact that it occurs in extreme conditions and involves rea…

physics.ins-det2026

Offline Commissioning of the St. Benedict Gas Catcher

F. Rivero, D. Guillet, M. Brodeur +11

Precision measurements of decay transitions offer a promising channel through which the Standard Model (SM) can be probed. There is currently an ongoing effort to increase the…

physics.ins-det2025

Off-line Commissioning of the St. Benedict Radiofrequency Quadrupole Cooler-Buncher

D. P. Burdette, R. Zite, M. Brodeur +20

The St. Benedict ion trapping system, which aims to measure the angular correlation parameter in superallowed-mixed mirror transitions, is under construction at the Univers…

nucl-ex2025

Astrophysical significance of the isomer Ag demonstrated through direct mass measurement

F. Rivero, M. Brodeur, J. A. Clark +18

The abundance of elements heavier than iron produced via the astrophysical rapid-neutron capture process depends sensitively on the atomic mass of the involved nuclei as well as th…

physics.acc-ph2026

The N=126 Factory: A New Multi-Nucleon Transfer Reaction Facility

A. A. Valverde, M. S. Martin, W. S. Porter +23

Multi-nucleon transfer (MNT) reactions between two heavy ions offer an effective method of producing heavy, neutron-rich nuclei that cannot currently be accessed efficiently using…