activity
20152026
most citedDawning of the N=32 shell closure seen through precision mass measurements of neutron-rich titanium isotopes

120 citations · 475 across the 30 of their papers we have counts for

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34 papers

nucl-ex2026

CREMA: Collinear Resonance for Exotic Molecules and Atoms

Fabian C. Pastrana Cruz, Shane G. Wilkins, Alex J. Brinson +19

The Collinear Resonance for Exotic Molecules and Atoms (CREMA) setup has been developed and commissioned at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Laboratory for Nuclear Scien…

nucl-ex2026

Probing high-momentum components in O via zero-degree cross-section ratios

FRS Experiment Collaboration, X. Wang, H. J. Ong +40

The OO reaction was measured at zero degrees for incident-proton energies of 403, 604, 907 and 1209 MeV. Cross-section ratios for the 6.18-MeV (3/2) and 5.24…

physics.ins-det2026

A Scalable Stacked-Electrode Printed Circuit Board Radio-Frequency Quadrupole (PCB-RFQ) for Precision Experiments

Tayemar K. Fowler-Davis, Moritz Pascal Reiter, Nawaf Altasan +21

Linear radio-frequency quadrupole (RFQ) traps are crucial for ion and phase-space manipulation across diverse physics platforms, including quantum information processing, precision…

nucl-th2026

TITAN mass measurements of neutron-rich Cs, Ba and r-process lanthanide abundances

T. -H. Yeh, J. D. Cardona, Y. Wang +26

We present measurements for the masses of five neutron-rich isotopes, Cs and Ba, probed for the first time by TITAN at TRIUMF with time-of-flight measureme…

nucl-ex2026

Interplay between Nuclear Shell Structure and Pairing around Doubly Magic Sn

Rane Simpson, Georgios Palkanoglou, Ellen Brisley +20

Shell structure in finite quantum systems gives rise to sudden changes in observable properties, while pairing correlations often compete against such discontinuities. The region n…

physics.atom-ph2026

Formation of gaseous, doubly charged cerium monofluoride CeF and its sensitivity to new physics

R. Simpson, C. Zülch, K. B. Ng +25

Tricationic protactinium monofluoride (PaF) has been proposed as a candidate for probing physics beyond the Standard Model of particle physics. Since studies with $^…

nucl-ex2026

Mass measurements of Yb identify an anomalous proton-neutron interaction

C. L. Brown, J. Ash, B. Ashrafkhani +30

Mass measurements of nuclei can identify structurally-driven trends in binding energy across isotopic chains, and can also isolate specific nucleon-nucleon interactions, such as th…

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-det2025

A high-voltage MR-ToF mass spectrometer and separator for the study of exotic isotopes at FRIB

F. M. Maier, C. M. Ireland, G. Bollen +7

The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) delivers a wide variety of rare isotopes as fast, stopped, or reaccelerated beams to enable forefront research in nuclear structure, astr…

nucl-ex2025

Observation of Tensor-Driven High-Momentum Neutrons in O via () Reactions and Zero-Degree Deuteron Momentum Spectroscopy

X. Wang, H. J. Ong, S. Terashima +42

The reaction has been studied at using 403-, 604-, 907- and 1209-MeV protons, comparing cross sections populating positive- and ne…

nucl-ex2025

Exploring the Onset of Collectivity Approaching N=40 through Manganese Masses

C. Chambers, M. P. Reiter, A. T. Gallant +24

Isotopes in the region of the nuclear chart below have been the subject of intense experimental and theoretical effort due to the potential onset of a new ``isla…

nucl-ex2025★ 6 cited

Refined topology of the N = 20 island of inversion with high precision mass measurements of Na and Mg

E. M. Lykiardopoulou, C. Walls, J. Bergmann +30

Mass measurements of Na and Mg using the TITAN MR-TOF-MS at TRIUMF's ISAC facility are presented, with the uncertainty of the Na mass reduced by over two…

nucl-ex2025

Precision mass measurements of Sr using TITAN's Multiple-Reflection Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometer

Z. Hockenbery, T. Murböck, B. Ashrafkhani +29

We report precision mass measurements of Sr performed with the TITAN Multiple-Reflection Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometer. This marks a first time mass measurement of $^{…

nucl-ex2024

Convergence on the Proton Drip-Line in Thulium

B. Kootte, M. P. Reiter, C. Andreoiu +35

Direct observation of proton emission for very small Q-values is often unfeasible due to the long partial half-lives of the proton emission channel associated with tunneling throug…

physics.ins-det2023

Increasing the rate capability for the cryogenic stopping cell of the FRS Ion Catcher

J. W. Zhao, D. Amanbayev, T. Dickel +45

At the FRS Ion Catcher (FRS-IC), projectile and fission fragments are produced at relativistic energies, separated in-flight, energy-bunched, slowed down, and thermalized in the ul…

physics.ins-det2023★ 6 cited

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★ 2 cited

Collision-Induced Dissociation at TRIUMF's Ion Trap for Atomic and Nuclear science

A. Jacobs, C. Andreoiu, J. Bergmann +26

The performance of high-precision mass spectrometry of radioactive isotopes can often be hindered by large amounts of contamination, including molecular species, stemming from the…

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-ex2022★ 16 cited

Investigating nuclear structure near and : Precision mass measurements of neutron-rich Ca, Ti and V isotopes

W. S. Porter, E. Dunling, E. Leistenschneider +32

Nuclear mass measurements of isotopes are key to improving our understanding of nuclear structure across the chart of nuclides, in particular for the determination of the appearanc…

nucl-ex2022★ 19 cited

Mapping the Island of Inversion: Precision Mass Measurements of Neutron-rich Fe Isotopes

W. S. Porter, B. Ashrafkhani, J. Bergmann +32

Nuclear properties across the chart of nuclides are key to improving and validating our understanding of the strong interaction in nuclear physics. We present high-precision mass m…

nucl-ex2021

Mass measurements of Ga reduce x-ray burst model uncertainties and extend the evaluated isobaric multiplet mass equation

S. F. Paul, J. Bergmann, J. D. Cardona +27

We report precision mass measurements of neutron-deficient gallium isotopes approaching the proton drip line. The measurements of Ga performed with the TITAN multiple-ref…

physics.ins-det2020★ 11 cited

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…

nucl-ex2020★ 45 cited

Precision mass measurements of neutron-rich scandium isotopes refine the evolution of and shell closures

E. Leistenschneider, E. Dunling, G. Bollen +17

We report high-precision mass measurements of Sc isotopes performed at the LEBIT facility at NSCL and at the TITAN facility at TRIUMF. Our results provide a substantial r…

physics.ins-det2019★ 17 cited

Design of a Multiple-Reflection Time-of-Flight Mass-Spectrometer for Barium-tagging

K. Murray, J. Dilling, R. Gornea +7

The search for neutrinoless double beta decay requires increasingly advanced methods of background reduction. A bold approach to solving this problem, in experiments using Xe-136,…