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Exploring - and -decay-induced quenching of the Th nuclear-clock isomer in solid-state hosts
Y. Elskens, M. Athanasakis-Kaklamanakis, S. Arasada Pradeep +52
The radiative decay dynamics of an ensemble of Th nuclei embedded in CaF and MgF is investigated. The isomer is populated through decay of Ac…
Laser spectroscopy and CP-violation sensitivity of actinium monofluoride
M. Athanasakis-Kaklamanakis, M. Au, A. Kyuberis +39
The apparent invariance of the strong nuclear force under combined charge conjugation and parity (CP) remains an open question in modern physics. Precision experiments with heavy a…
A new beamline for Resonant Excitation of Beams with Electromagnetic fields and Lasers (REBEL) and Stopping and Trapping of Radioactive Isotopes for Precision Experiments (STRIPE)
Phillip Imgram, Dinko Atanasov, Michail Athanasakis-Kaklamanakis +6
We present two newly constructed experimental setups - REBEL (Resonant Excitation of Beams with Electromagnetic fields and Lasers) and STRIPE (Stopping and Trapping of Radioactive…
Community input to the European Strategy on particle physics: Searches for Permanent Electric Dipole Moments
M. Athanasakis-Kaklamanakis, M. Au, R. Berger +8
Searches for electric dipole moments (EDMs) in fundamental particles and quantum systems with spin are pivotal experiments at the intersection of low-energy and high-precision part…
Refining the nuclear mass surface with the mass of Sn
L. Nies, D. Atanasov, M. Athanasakis-Kaklamanakis +17
Mass measurements with the ISOLTRAP mass spectrometer at CERN-ISOLDE improve mass uncertainties of neutron-deficient tin isotopes towards doubly-magic Sn. The mass uncertai…
Cr as a Doorway to the N = 40 Island of Inversion
L. Lalanne, M. Athanasakis-Kaklamanakis, D. D. Dao +24
This paper reports on the measurement of the ground-state spin and nuclear magnetic dipole moment of Cr. The radioactive ion beam was produced at the CERN-ISOLDE facility an…
Radiative Decay of the Th Nuclear Clock Isomer in Different Host Materials
S. V. Pineda, P. Chhetri, S. Bara +42
A comparative vacuum ultraviolet spectroscopy study conducted at ISOLDE-CERN of the radiative decay of the Th nuclear clock isomer embedded in different host materials is…
Isotope-shift factors with quantum electrodynamics effects for many-electron systems: A study of the nuclear charge radius of Al
Leonid V. Skripnikov, Sergey D. Prosnyak, Aleksei V. Malyshev +7
A method for calculating the field shift contribution to isotope shifts in many-electron atoms, incorporating quantum electrodynamics (QED) effects, is introduced. We also implemen…
Radiative lifetime of the A 2Π1/2 state in RaF with relevance to laser cooling
M. Athanasakis-Kaklamanakis, S. G. Wilkins, P. Lassègues +38
The radiative lifetime of the (v=0) state in radium monofluoride (RaF) is measured to be 35(1) ns. The lifetime of this state and the related decay rate $Γ= 2.86(8…
Observation of the distribution of nuclear magnetization in a molecule
S. G. Wilkins, S. M. Udrescu, M. Athanasakis-Kaklamanakis +33
Rapid progress in the experimental control and interrogation of molecules, combined with developments in precise calculations of their structure, are enabling new opportunities in…
Pinning down electron correlations in RaF via spectroscopy of excited states and high-accuracy relativistic quantum chemistry
M. Athanasakis-Kaklamanakis, S. G. Wilkins, L. V. Skripnikov +53
We report the spectroscopy of the 14 lowest excited electronic states in the radioactive molecule radium monofluoride (RaF). The observed excitation energies are compared with full…
Isomeric excitation energy for In from mass spectrometry reveals constant trend next to doubly magic Sn
L. Nies, D. Atanasov, M. Athanasakis-Kaklamanakis +16
The excitation energy of the 1/2 isomer in In at is measured to be 671(37) keV and the mass uncertainty of the 9/2 ground state is significantly reduced usi…
Ab initio study of electronic states and radiative properties of the AcF molecule
Leonid V. Skripnikov, Alexander V. Oleynichenko, Andréi Zaitsevskii +4
Relativistic coupled-cluster calculations of the ionization potential, dissociation energy, and excited electronic states under 35,000 cm are presented for the actinium mono…
Production of neptunium and plutonium nuclides from uranium carbide using 1.4-GeV protons
M. Au, M. Athanasakis-Kaklamanakis, L. Nies +11
Accelerator-based techniques are one of the leading ways to produce radioactive nuclei. In this work, the Isotope Separation On-Line method was employed at the CERN-ISOLDE facility…
In-source and in-trap formation of molecular ions in the actinide mass range at CERN-ISOLDE
M. Au, M. Athanasakis-Kaklamanakis, L. Nies +22
The use of radioactive molecules for fundamental physics research is a developing interdisciplinary field limited dominantly by their scarce availability. In this work, radioactive…
Voltage scanning and technical upgrades at the Collinear Resonance Ionization Spectroscopy experiment
Michail Athanasakis-Kaklamanakis, Jordan R. Reilly, Agota Koszorus +16
To optimize the performance of the Collinear Resonance Ionization Spectroscopy (CRIS) experiment at CERN-ISOLDE, technical upgrades are continuously introduced, aiming to enhance i…
RAPTOR: a new collinear laser ionization spectroscopy and laser-radiofrequency double-resonance experiment at the IGISOL facility
Sonja Kujanpää, Andrea Raggio, Ruben de Groote +8
RAPTOR, Resonance ionization spectroscopy And Purification Traps for Optimized spectRoscopy, is a new collinear resonance ionization spectroscopy device constructed at the Ion Guid…
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,…
Observation of the radiative decay of the nuclear clock isomer
Sandro Kraemer, Janni Moens, Michail Athanasakis-Kaklamanakis +32
The nucleus of the radioisotope thorium-229 (Th) features an isomer with an exceptionally low excitation energy that enables direct laser manipulation of nuclear states.…
Superradiance of molecular nitrogen ions in strong laser fields
Q. Wang, P. Ding, S. G. Wilkins +5
We perform a combined theoretical and experimental investigation of the superradiance in the quantum coherent system generated by strong laser fields. The semiclassical theory of s…