Mass and Lifetime Measurements in Storage Rings
- Gesellschaft fuer Schwerionenforschung mbH, 64291 Darmstadt (Germany)
Masses of nuclides covering a large area of the chart of nuclides can be measured in storage rings where many ions circulate at the same time. In this paper the recent progress in the analysis of Schottky mass spectrometry data is presented as well as the technical improvements leading to higher accuracy for isochronous mass measurements with a time-of-flight detector. The high sensitivity of the Schottky method down to single ions allows to measure lifetimes of nuclides by observing mother and daughter nucleus simultaneously. In this way we investigated the decay of bare and H-like 140Pr. As we could show the lifetime can be even shortened compared to those of atomic nuclei despite of a lower number of electrons available for internal conversion or electron capture.All these techniques will be implemented with further improvements at the storage rings of the new FAIR facility at GSI in the future.
- OSTI ID:
- 21061842
- Journal Information:
- AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 912, Issue 1; Conference: International symposium on exotic nuclei, Khanty-Mansiysk (Russian Federation), 17-22 Jul 2006; Other Information: DOI: 10.1063/1.2746584; (c) 2007 American Institute of Physics; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0094-243X
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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