0000000000799429
AUTHOR
Reinhold Schuch
High-frequency Ramsey excitation in a Penning trap
The Ramsey excitation method for high-precision mass-measurements of highly-charged ions has been investigated and benchmarked using H2+ ions in the Penning-trap mass-spectrometer SMILETRAP. The reason for using H2+ ions are their high cyclotron frequency which is typical for the highly-charged ions usually used at SMILETRAP. Two-, three- and four-pulse Ramsey excitation data are analyzed with the help of recent theoretical work and are compared with the previously used single-pulse excitation data. An improvement factor of 2.9 in the statistical uncertainty is achieved. Furthermore the mass of 76Se, included in the previous Q-value measurement of the 76Ge neutrinoless double beta decay, is…
SPARC experiments at the high-energy storage ring
The physics program of the SPARC collaboration at the Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR) focuses on the study of collision phenomena in strong and even extreme electromagnetic fields and on the fundamental interactions between electrons and heavy nuclei up to bare uranium. Here we give a short overview on the challenging physics opportunities of the high-energy storage ring at FAIR for future experiments with heavy-ion beams at relativistic energies with particular emphasis on the basic beam properties to be expected.
New Mass Value forLi7
A high-accuracy mass measurement of $^{7}\mathrm{Li}$ was performed with the SMILETRAP Penning-trap mass spectrometer via a cyclotron frequency comparison of $^{7}\mathrm{Li}^{3+}$ and $\mathrm{H}_{2}{}^{+}$. A new atomic-mass value of $^{7}\mathrm{Li}$ has been determined to be $7.016\text{ }003\text{ }425\text{ }6(45)\text{ }\text{ }\mathrm{u}$ with a relative uncertainty of 0.63 ppb. It has uncovered a discrepancy as large as $14\ensuremath{\sigma}$ ($1.1\text{ }\text{ }\ensuremath{\mu}\mathrm{u}$) deviation relative to the literature value given in the Atomic-Mass Evaluation AME 2003. The importance of the improved and revised $^{7}\mathrm{Li}$ mass value, for calibration purposes in nu…
The SMILETRAP facility
The SMILETRAP experimental set-up, a Penning trap mass spectrometer for highly charged ions, is described. Capture and observation of cyclotron frequencies of externally produced highly charged ions, rapid interchange of investigated and reference ions and measurements of the rotational kinetic energies are demonstrated. Mass measurements utilizing different charge states and species to verify the consistency of the measurements are presented. A relative uncertainty of about 10−9 is attained in comparisons between highly charged carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, neon and the singly charged hydrogen molecule.