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Spectroscopic studies with the PRISMA-CLARA set-up
2010
The large solid angle magnetic spectrometer for heavy ions PRISMA, installed at Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro (LNL), was operated up to the end of March 2008 in conjunction with the highly efficient CLARA set-up. It allowed to carry out nuclear structure and reaction mechanism studies in several mass regions of the nuclide chart. Results obtained in the vicinity of the island of inversion and for the heavy iron and chromium isotopes are presented in this contribution. The status of the new focal plane detectors specifically designed for light ions and slow moving heavy ions is also reported.
Helium-jet transportation of recoil atoms into a liquid phase
1973
Abstract A rapid inexpensive method has been developed for transportation of recoiling short-lived radioactive nuclides from a target chamber over distances of several meters into a liquid phase. This allows rapid radiochemical separation of different elements. The carrier-loaded helium-jet transport technique is employed without a pumping system. The method would appear to be applicable to most chemical elements. The transport efficiency is higher than 50% and the transport time can be made much shorter than 1 s. Radiochemical separation times of a few seconds were achieved.
Towards Shorter-Lived Nuclides in ISOLTRAP Mass Measurements
2001
Recently, the applicability of Penning trap mass spectrometry has been extended to nuclides with a half-life of less than one second. The mass of 33Ar(T 1/2 = 174 ms) was measured using the ISOLTRAP spectrometer with an accuracy of 4.2 keV. This measurement provided a stringent test of the Isobaric Multiplet Mass Equation (IMME) at mass number A = 33 and isospin T = 3/2. The fast measurement cycle that shows the way to other measurements of very-short-lived nuclides is presented. Furthermore, the results of the IMME test are displayed.
Direct mass measurements above uranium bridge the gap to the island of stability
2010
The mass of an atom incorporates all its constituents and their interactions. The difference between the mass of an atom and the sum of its building blocks (the binding energy) is a manifestation of Einstein's famous relation E = mc(2). The binding energy determines the energy available for nuclear reactions and decays (and thus the creation of elements by stellar nucleosynthesis), and holds the key to the fundamental question of how heavy the elements can be. Superheavy elements have been observed in challenging production experiments, but our present knowledge of the binding energy of these nuclides is based only on the detection of their decay products. The reconstruction from extended d…
Laser spectroscopy — Recent results and prospects for lighter nuclei
1992
Atomic physics methods have provided important information about the electromagnetic properties of the nuclear ground states. In recent years the experimental effort has been directed towards optical high resolution spectroscopy of very high sensitivity, giving access to short-lived nuclides very far from stability. A few of these new techniques based on collinear laser spectroscopy are presented with their latest results. They are suitable for an extension of the experiments to the region of lighter nuclei.
The on-line isotope separation facility helios at the mainz reactor
1980
Abstract The on-line isotope separation facility HELIOS consisting of a helium-jet transport system coupled to a high transmission mass separator is described. The main characteristics of the system were determined from γ-ray measurements on neutron-rich nuclides. The transmission from the target to the skimmer is about 60%; the overall efficiency for typical fission product elements is 0.05–0.2% and the transit time for Cs is about 1.0 s.
Experiments on Fission Dynamics with Relativistic Heavy-ion Beams
2002
[Abstract] At GSI, Darmstadt, an experimental program on fission with relativistic heavy-ion beams is in progress. A large range of excitation energies, combined with low angular momentum and small shape distortion is accessible. Full nuclide identification of the reaction residues is achieved by applying inverse kinematics. The nuclide production and the kinematics of fission fragments from a variety of primordial and radioactive projectiles reveal new insight into the influence of shell effects and dissipation on the fission process. The present contribution gives an overview on the experimental methods, the experimental results and the prospects for future progress.
Gamow-Teller Beta Decay of Neutron Rich Tc, Ru, Rh and Pd Isotopes
1988
During recent experiments at the IGISOL-facility several new neutron rich nuclides have been discovered, including the first direct observations of the beta decays of 111Tc, 112Ru, 113Ru, 114Ru, 113Rh, 115Rh, 116Rh and 118Pd. The role of the νg7/2 → πg9/2 transformation in the beta decays of the odd-odd 110–116Rh and the even-even 114–118Pd isotopes is shown to be dominant. The experimental results are compared with shell model calculations including deformation and pairing.
Proton-Rich Light Nuclei
1989
A basic question for a given element of how few or how many neutrons can be contained in its nucleus and still result in a “bound” system, and the resulting consequences on our present concept of nuclear structure, have been the focus of much recent research on highly unstable nuclei. It is only during the last several years that the limit of nuclear stability has been reached in a few areas of the nuclear chart. Except among the lightest elements, knowledge of the limit on the neutron-excess side is still beyond our experimental capability. For the heavier elements, the gap between the most neutron-rich isotope known and the isotope which is predicted to define the neutron drip-line more o…
Double-βtransformations in isobaric triplets with mass numbersA=124, 130, and 136
2012
The Q values of double-electron capture in ${}^{124}$Xe, ${}^{130}$Ba, and ${}^{136}$Ce and double-beta decay of ${}^{124}$Sn and ${}^{130}$Te have been determined with the Penning-trap mass spectrometer SHIPTRAP with a few hundred eV uncertainty. These nuclides are members of three isobaric triplets with common daughter nuclides. The main goal of this work was to investigate the existence of the resonant enhancement of the neutrinoless double-electron-capture rates in ${}^{124}$Xe and ${}^{130}$Ba in order to assess their suitability for the search for neutrinoless double-electron capture. Based on our results, in neither of these cases is the resonance condition fulfilled.