This dissertation award talk will describe the transition of the ISOLTRAP mass spectrometer at CERN from the well-established Penning-trap mass spectrometry (PTMS) technique, ToF-ICR, to the next-generation PTMS technique, called PI-ICR [PRL 110 (2013) 082501]. Using this revolutionary technique, we achieved the first mass measurements of the neutron-deficient indium isotopes $^{99-101}$In in...
The nuclear electromagnetic moments and changes in the charge radius are sensitive tools to investigate phenomena emerging in short-lived isotopes. These properties, extracted from laser spectroscopy experiments, are often essential to critically examine our understanding of the nuclear structure, and its evolution towards the edges of the nuclear landscape. In this contribution, recent...
High-energy nuclear collisions are conducted in the world’s largest accelerator facilities to characterize the hot and dense phase of strong-interaction matter, the quark-gluon plasma (QGP). Production of QGP droplets began with 197Au+197 collisions at the BNL RHIC in the early 2000's, and was followed in 2010 by 208Pb+208Pb collisions at the CERN LHC.
Thanks to data recently collected in...