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Publications (10)

nucl-ex2025

A pathway towards decentralized studies of radioactive post-lead elements and their applications in beyond standard model physics

Moritz Pascal Reiter, Kriti Mahajan, Meetika Narang +21

Molecules have proven to be sensitive tools for studying physics beyond the standard model, with heavy and deformed nuclei offering decisive sensitivity to parity- and time-reversa…

physics.ins-det2020

Separation of atomic and molecular ions by ion mobility with an RF carpet

Ivan Miskun, Timo Dickel, Samuel Ayet San Andres +16

Gas-filled stopping cells are used at accelerator laboratories for the thermalization of high-energy radioactive ion beams. Common challenges of many stopping cells are a high mole…

physics.ins-det2018

The Soreq Applied Research Accelerator Facility (SARAF) - Overview, Research Programs and Future Plans

Israel Mardor, Ofer Aviv, Marilena Avrigeanu +26

The Soreq Applied Research Accelerator Facility (SARAF) is under construction in the Soreq Nuclear Research Center at Yavne, Israel. When completed at the beginning of the next dec…

physics.ins-det2023

Mean range bunching of exotic nuclei produced by in-flight fragmentation and fission -- Stopped-beam experiments with increased efficiency

Timo Dickel, Christine Hornung, Daler Amanbayev +24

The novel technique of mean range bunching has been developed and applied at the projectile fragment separator FRS at GSI in four experiments of the FAIR phase-0 experimental progr…

nucl-ex2022

Studying Gamow-Teller transitions and the assignment of isomeric and ground states at

Ali Mollaebrahimi, Christine Hornung, Timo Dickel +50

Direct mass measurements of neutron-deficient nuclides around the shell closure below Sn were performed at the FRS Ion Catcher (FRS-IC) at GSI, Germany. The nuclei w…

nucl-ex2019

A Novel Method for the Measurement of Half-Lives and Decay Branching Ratios of Exotic Nuclei

Ivan Miskun, Timo Dickel, Israel Mardor +28

A novel method for simultaneous measurement of masses, Q-values, isomer excitation energies, half-lives and decay branching ratios of exotic nuclei has been demonstrated. The metho…

nucl-ex2023

Opportunities for Fundamental Physics Research with Radioactive Molecules

Gordon Arrowsmith-Kron, Michail Athanasakis-Kaklamanakis, Mia Au +59

Molecules containing short-lived, radioactive nuclei are uniquely positioned to enable a wide range of scientific discoveries in the areas of fundamental symmetries, astrophysics,…

nucl-ex2024

High-precision mass measurements of neutron deficient silver isotopes probe the robustness of the = 50 shell closure

Zhuang Ge, Mikael Reponen, Tommi Eronen +36

High-precision mass measurements of exotic Ag isotopes close to the line have been conducted with the JYFLTRAP double Penning trap mass spectrometer, with the sil…

nucl-ex2025

Direct mass measurements of neutron-rich zinc and gallium isotopes: an investigation of the formation of the first r-process peak

Andrew Jacobs, Stylianos Nikas, John Ash +23

The prediction of isotopic abundances resulting from the rapid neutron capture process (r-process) requires high-precision mass measurements. Using TITAN's on-line time-of-flight s…

physics.atom-ph2025

A cryogenic Paul trap for probing the nuclear isomeric excited state Th

Daniel Moritz, Kevin Scharl, Markus Wiesinger +16

While laser excitation of the nuclear isomeric transition in Th has been recently achieved for thorium atoms embedded in large-bandgap crystals, laser excitation and charac…