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physics.atom-ph2020★ 37 cited

Nuclear deformation as a source of the non-linearity of King plot in the Yb ion

Saleh O. Allehabi, V. A. Dzuba, V. V. Flambaum +1

We perform atomic relativistic many-body calculations of the field isotope shifts and calculations of corresponding nuclear parameters for all stable even-even isotopes of Yb i…

physics.atom-ph2020★ 18 cited

Quadruply Ionized Barium as a Candidate for a High-Accuracy Optical Clock

Kyle Beloy, Vladimir A. Dzuba, Samuel M. Brewer

We identify Ba (Te-like) as a promising candidate for a high-accuracy optical clock. The lowest-lying electronic states are part of a fine structure manifold with an…

physics.atom-ph2020★ 22 cited

Electronic structure of ytterbium monohydroxide molecule to search for axionlike particles

D. E. Maison, V. V. Flambaum, N. R. Hutzler +1

Recently the YbOH molecule has been suggested as a candidate to search for the electron electric dipole moment (eEDM) which violates spatial parity (P) and time-reversal (T) symmet…

physics.atom-ph2020★ 37 cited

Nuclear spin-dependent parity-violating effects in light polyatomic molecules

Yongliang Hao, Petr Navrátil, Eric B. Norrgard +5

Measurements of nuclear spin-dependent parity-violating (NSD-PV) effects provide an excellent opportunity to test nuclear models and to search for physics beyond the Standard Model…

physics.atom-ph2020★ 74 cited

Sensitivity of Th nuclear clock transition to variation of the fine-structure constant

Pavel Fadeev, Julian C. Berengut, Victor V. Flambaum

Peik and Tamm [Europhys. Lett. 61, 181 (2003)] proposed a nuclear clock based on the isomeric transition between the ground state and the first excited state of thorium-229. This t…

physics.atom-ph2020★ 21 cited

Time keeping and searching for new physics using metastable states of Cu, Ag and Au

V. A. Dzuba, Saleh O. Allehabi, V. V. Flambaum +2

We study the prospects of using the electric quadrupole transitions from the ground states of Cu, Ag and Au to the metastable state as clock transitions in optica…

physics.atom-ph2020★ 1 cited

Population kinetics of many-electron atoms in ionizing plasmas studied using a continuous collisional radiative model

Akira Nishio, Julian C. Berengut, Masahiro Hasuo +1

Collisional--radiative (CR) models based on \textit{ab initio} atomic structure calculation have been utilized over 20 years to analyze many-electron atomic and ionic spectra. Alth…

physics.atom-ph2020★ 23 cited

Search for CP-violating nuclear magnetic quadrupole moment using the LuOH cation

D. E. Maison, L. V. Skripnikov, V. V. Flambaum +1

The CP-violating interaction of the nuclear magnetic quadrupole moment (MQM) of the Lu nucleus with electrons in the molecular cation LuOH is studied. The resulting eff…

physics.atom-ph2020★ 71 cited

Improved isotope-shift-based bounds on bosons beyond the Standard Model through measurements of the DD interval in Ca

Cyrille Solaro, Steffen Meyer, Karin Fisher +3

We perform high-resolution spectroscopy of the dDdD interval in all stable even isotopes of Ca (A = 40, 42, 44, 46 and 48) with an accuracy…

physics.atom-ph2020★ 125 cited

Evidence for Nonlinear Isotope Shift in Yb Search for New Boson

Ian Counts, Joonseok Hur, Diana P. L. Aude Craik +7

We measure isotope shifts for five Yb isotopes with zero nuclear spin on two narrow optical quadrupole transitions , ${}^2S_{1/2} \rightarr…

physics.atom-ph2020★ 60 cited

Atomic physics studies at the Gamma Factory at CERN

Dmitry Budker, José R. Crespo López-Urrutia, Andrei Derevianko +7

The Gamma Factory initiative proposes to develop novel research tools at CERN by producing, accelerating and storing highly relativistic, partially stripped ion beams in the SPS an…

physics.atom-ph2020★ 29 cited

Actinide and lanthanide molecules to search for strong CP-violation

Leonid V. Skripnikov, Nikolai S. Mosyagin, Anatoly V. Titov +1

The existence of the fundamental CP-violating interactions inside the nucleus leads to the existence of the nuclear Schiff moment. The Schiff moment potential corresponds to the el…

physics.atom-ph2020★ 11 cited

Theoretical study of the spectroscopic properties of mendelevium ()

Jiguang Li, Vladimir Dzuba

Using recently developed version of the configuration interaction method for atoms with open shells we calculate electron structure and spectroscopic properties of the mendelevium…

physics.atom-ph2020★ 19 cited

Using isotope shift for testing nuclear theory: the case of nobelium isotopes

Saleh O. Allehabi, V. A. Dzuba, V. V. Flambaum +2

We calculate field isotope shifts for nobelium atoms using nuclear charge distributions which come from different nuclear models. We demonstrate that comparing calculated isotope s…

physics.atom-ph2020★ 56 cited

Electronic bridge excitation in highly charged Th-229 ions

Pavlo V. Bilous, Hendrik Bekker, Julian Berengut +6

The excitation of the 8 eV Th isomer through the electronic bridge mechanism in highly charged ions is investigated theoretically. By exploiting the rich level scheme of o…