Conveners
Recent Experimental Results IV
- Kieran Flanagan (University of Manchester (GB))
For the last decade, the Collinear Resonance Ionization Spectropscopy (CRIS) experiment at ISOLDE has been focussing on performing laser spectroscopy for hyperfine structure studies of exotic nuclei across the nuclear chart. The CRIS technique allows to study atomic, nuclear and molecular properties and stands out with its combination of high-resolution measurements along a high sensitivity...
The Miniball gamma-ray spectrometer at ISOLDE-CERN is employed to investigate both collective and single-particle nuclear properties of radioactive isotopes. The spectrometer comprises eight assemblies of three high-purity germanium detectors, and is complemented with ancillary silicon detectors for particle detection. It exploits the re-accelerated radioactive ion beams provided by the...
The phenomenon of shell closures corresponding to increased stability of nuclei at magic numbers of protons or neutrons (2, 8, 20, 50, etc.) is a key feature of the nuclear shell model. However, conventional shell closures can disappear for radioactive nuclei in several key regions of the nuclear chart known as “islands of inversion.” These islands provide ideal testing grounds for modern...
High-precision mass measurements of radioactive ions are used to determine nuclear binding energies, which reflect all forces acting in the nucleus and are used to study among others nuclear structure, nuclear astrophysics and weak interaction.
For this, the ISOLTRAP mass spectrometer [1] uses various ion traps, including a tandem Penning-trap system and a multi-reflection time-of-flight...
