Conveners
Neutron-rich Nuclei
- Klaus Blaum (Max Planck Society (DE))
Neutron induced reactions play a key role in stellar nucleosynthesis processes. In particular, neutron reaction cross sections are an important input to predict abundances produced by the slow neutron capture process, responsible for about half of the elemental abundances heavier than iron. Also for some lighter mass isotopes, neutron induced reactions may play a crucial role, for example for...
The pattern of single-particle excitations outside of 132Sn has held a long-standing fascination in the field, being the heaviest short-lived doubly magic nucleus. For over three decades, measurements to explore these excitations have been used as examples to motivate the development of facilities and instrumentation in long-range planning exercises. In a recent experiment at CERN's...
As part of IS659 a beam of 8He was taken to IDS in May 2022. Here a setup was prepared with double sided silicon strip detectors (DSSDs), plastic detectors with high timing resolution for beta detection, the IDS HPGe Clover array and the IDS neutron detector array (INDiE). With an ADC trace captured for each event in the beta and INDiE detectors, different timing algorithms have been explored...
Exciting new opportunities for beta-decay experiments have emerged at the ISOLDE facility with the recently developed spectroscopy station called DeVITO [1]. The novelty of the new setup lies in its integration with the VITO beamline [2] for laser-polarisation of radioactive beams, enabling spectroscopy measurements with spin-oriented nuclei that emit radiation anisotropically. The ability to...
