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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…
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…
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…
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 $^{…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
High-resolution, accurate MR-TOF-MS for short-lived, exotic nuclei of few events in their ground and low-lying isomeric states
S. Ayet, C. Hornung, J. Ebert +37
Mass measurements of fission and projectile fragments, produced via U and Xe primary beams, have been performed with the multiple-reflection time-of-flight mass spe…
Mass Measurements of Neutron-Rich Gallium Isotopes Refine Production of Nuclei of the First r-Process Abundance Peak in Neutron Star Merger Calculations
M. P. Reiter, S. Ayet San Andrés, S. Nikas +33
We report mass measurements of neutron-rich Ga isotopes Ga with TRIUMF's Ion Trap for Atomic and Nuclear science (TITAN). The measurements determine the masses of $^{80-8…
Dawning of the N=32 shell closure seen through precision mass measurements of neutron-rich titanium isotopes
E. Leistenschneider, M. P. Reiter, S. Ayet San Andrés +42
A precision mass investigation of the neutron-rich titanium isotopes Ti was performed at TRIUMF's Ion Trap for Atomic and Nuclear science (TITAN). The range of the measur…
Direct mapping of nuclear shell effects in the heaviest elements
E. Minaya Ramirez, D. Ackermann, K. Blaum +21
Quantum-mechanical shell effects are expected to strongly enhance nuclear binding on an "island of stability" of superheavy elements. The predicted center at proton number $Z=114,1…
Schottky mass measurements of heavy neutron-rich nuclides in the element range $70\leZ \le79$ at the ESR
D. Shubina, R. B. Cakirli, Yu. A. Litvinov +42
Storage-ring mass spectrometry was applied to neutron-rich Au projectile fragments. Masses of Lu, Hf, Ta, W, and Re…
Direct observation of long-lived isomers in Bi
L. Chen, P. M. Walker, H. Geissel +40
Long-lived isomers in 212Bi have been studied following 238U projectile fragmentation at 670 MeV per nucleon. The fragmentation products were injected as highly charged ions into t…
Mass measurements of very neutron-deficient Mo and Tc isotopes and their impact on rp process nucleosynthesis
E. Haettner, D. Ackermann, G. Audi +25
The masses of ten proton-rich nuclides, including the N=Z+1 nuclides 85-Mo and 87-Tc, were measured with the Penning trap mass spectrometer SHIPTRAP. Compared to the Atomic Mass Ev…
Mass measurements in the vicinity of the rp-process and the nu p-process paths with JYFLTRAP and SHIPTRAP
C. Weber, V. -V. Elomaa, R. Ferrer +42
The masses of very neutron-deficient nuclides close to the astrophysical rp- and nu p-process paths have been determined with the Penning trap facilities JYFLTRAP at JYFL/Jyväskylä…
Comment on the paper "Search for oscillation of the electron-capture decay probability of Pm" at arXiv:0807.0649v1
Yu. A. Litvinov, F. Bosch, N. Winckler +36
It is argued that orbital electron-capture decays of neutral Pm atoms implanted into the lattice of a solid (LBNL experiment) do not fulfil the constraints of true two-body…
Observation of Non-Exponential Orbital Electron Capture Decays of Hydrogen-Like Pr and Pm Ions
Yu. A. Litvinov, F. Bosch, N. Winckler +37
We report on time-modulated two-body weak decays observed in the orbital electron capture of hydrogen-like Pr and Pm ions coasting in an ion storage…
Measurement of the and orbital electron-capture decay rates in fully-ionized, hydrogen-like, and helium-like Pr ions
Yu. A. Litvinov, F. Bosch, H. Geissel +39
We report on the first measurement of the - and orbital electron capture decay rates of Pr nuclei with the most simple electron configurations: bare nuclei, hydrogen-l…