Prof.
Guy Savard
(Argonne National Laboratory and University of Chicago)
15/12/2014, 09:10
Invited
A new facility for the production of short-lived neutron-rich isotopes, CARIBU, is now operational at Argonne National Laboratory. CARIBU, the Californium Rare Ion Breeder Upgrade (CARIBU) of the ATLAS superconducting linac facility, provides low energy and reaccelerated neutron-rich radioactive beams to address key nuclear physics and astrophysics questions. These beams are obtained from...
Michiharu Wada
(RIKEN)
15/12/2014, 09:35
Invited
A universal stopped and low-energy RI-beam facility (SLOWRI) [1] is finally being installed
at RIKEN RIBF. It will convert relativistic RI-beams from the inflight separator BigRIPS to
low-energy, low-emittance, high-purity RI beams using two different gas catcher cells: RF-carpet
gas cell and PALIS gas cell [2, 3]. The former is a 1.5-m long cell filled with 100 mbar He
gas and operated at...
Georg Bollen
(Michigan State University)
15/12/2014, 10:00
Invited
FRIB, the US’s “Facility for Rare Isotope Beams” at Michigan State University (MSU), will be based on a 400 kW, 200 MeV/u heavy ion linear accelerator. Once realized, FRIB will be a world-leading rare isotope beam facility, providing a wide variety of high-quality beams of unstable isotopes at unprecedented intensities, opening exciting research perspectives with fast, stopped, and...
Jens Dilling
(triumf/UBC)
15/12/2014, 10:25
Submitted
The ISAC facility at TRIUMF with its ISOL-based radioactive beam operation with up to 50kW production targets offers some unique research capabilities to its 18 permanently installed (and 3 general purpose experimental stations) experiments. ISAC has been operational for over 15 years and its experimental program includes nuclear structure studies, electroweak-precision studies, nuclear...
Prof.
Mikael Jensen
(DTU-NUTECH, Technical University of Denmark)
15/12/2014, 11:15
Invited
Medical use of radioactive isotopes for diagnosis and therapy is a widespread and commonly accepted application of radioactivity. It has historical roots back to Curie, Hevesy and Lawrence, and while the principles are the same as a 100 years ago, the number of applications, their sophistication and precision, and not least the clinical benefits are growing each day.
Although “new”...
Luis Mario Fraile
(Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
15/12/2014, 11:45
Submitted
We will describe the development of a personal radiation level monitoring system based on an autonomous, advanced dosimeter, which takes advantage of a scintillator-SiPM combination and integrates isotope identification capabilities.
The measurements are time and position stamped, including indoor locations. The device implements Wireless Sensor Networks access in such a way that several...
Morten Vinther Lund
(Aarhus University (DK))
15/12/2014, 12:05
Submitted
The beta-decay of the proton rich nuclei $^{21}$Mg was used as a calibration source for the IS507 experiment. The aim of the experiment was to study the beta-decay of $^{20}$Mg with a dedicated charged particle detection setup consisting of two opposing $\Delta$E-E telescopes. As $^{21}$Mg is close in mass to $^{20}$Mg and is a known beta-delayed proton emitter, with intense proton branches,...
Rafael Ferrer Garcia
(KU Leuven (BE))
15/12/2014, 12:25
Submitted
The In-Gas Laser Ionization and Spectroscopy (IGLIS) technique was employed at the LISOL facility to produce radioactive beams of high purity and obtain important information on the nuclear ground- and excited-state properties of, e.g., neutron deficient copper [1] and silver [2]isotopes.
Recent experiments on the actinide region have allowed us to efficiently produce beams of neutron...
Thomas Day Goodacre
(CERN)
15/12/2014, 14:00
Invited
The long shutdown (LS1) provided an opportunity for ionization scheme and ion source development for the ISOLDE resonance ionization laser ion source (RILIS), in addition to several upgrades to the general RILIS set up. Several of these results will be presented along with a summary of the current RILIS status.
New RILIS ionization schemes have been successfully developed and tested for...
Jean-Louis Grenard
(CERN)
15/12/2014, 14:15
Invited
During the LS1 a major safety upgrade was held at ISOLDE, the complete robotic system for the target exchange has been replaced. This upgrade was done in order to improve the operation and the safety of the facility. This presentation will explain the different phases of the project from the idea of upgrading the system to it final operation and although the future evolution of the system.
Martin Breitenfeldt
(Universidad Complutense (ES))
15/12/2014, 14:30
Invited
For more than a decennium REX-ISOLDE has been a key element at the ISOLDE radioactive beam facility. The post-accelerator consists of a Penning trap for bunching and cooling of the 1+ ions delivered from ISOLDE, an EBIS for charge breeding and a LINAC for the actual acceleration. It has delivered over 100 different radioactive radionuclides with an energy of a few MeV/u. While successful, the...
Andrey Shornikov
(CERN)
15/12/2014, 14:45
Invited
As part of the HIE-ISOLDE design study options for a new high-performance successor to the REXEBIS charge breeder have been investigated. In a parametric study based on the HIE-ISOLDE linac upgrade, and a possible future extension of HIE-ISOLDE by TSR@ISOLDE, a set of design requirements for the new breeder was elaborated.
In collaboration with the Advanced Ion Sources group at Brookhaven...
Melanie Delonca
(Universite de Technologie de Belfort-Montbeliard (FR))
15/12/2014, 15:00
Invited
Future perspective for physics measurements at CERN-ISOLDE call for the use of molten metal targets to improve the yield of radioactive isotopes delivered to the experiments and better handle the high power density from the beam. CERN launched in 2012 an R&D project called LIEBE to investigate the feasibility of testing on line a Pb/Bi loop target compatible with the present installations at...
Richard Catherall
(CERN)
15/12/2014, 15:15
Invited
Financed by the European Commission within the Marie Curie Actions-ITN program, the CATHI (Cryogenics, Accelerators and Targets for Hie-ISOLDE) was launched in 2010 with the recruitment of 20 researchers; 11 of whom completed their training while working on different aspects of the HIE-ISOLDE Design Study. As the project terminates in 2014, their work will be collected in a final report that...
Witold Nazarewicz
(Michigan State University)
15/12/2014, 16:00
Invited
The long-term vision of nuclear theory is to arrive at a comprehensive and unified description of nuclei and their reactions, grounded in the interactions between the constituent nucleons. Theorists seek to replace current phenomenological models of nuclear structure and reactions with a well-founded microscopic theory that delivers maximum predictive power with well-quantified uncertainties....
Prof.
Gerda Neyens
(K.U. Leuven)
15/12/2014, 16:30
Invited
We have investigated the ground state structure of K and Ca over a wide range of isotopes, from below N=20 across the N=28 shell gap using the bunched-beam collinear laser spectroscopy technique. Thanks to the background reduction using the bunched-beam correlation method and the improved optical detection using a newly-designed detection set-up, experiments could be extended for both K and...
Frank HERFURTH
(GSI Darmstadt)
15/12/2014, 17:00
Submitted
The CRYRING@ESR project is the early installation of the low-energy storage ring LSR, the Swedish in kind contribution to FAIR, which was proposed as the central decelerator ring for antiprotons at the FLAIR facility. Since the modularized start version of FAIR does not include the erection of the FLAIR building, it was proposed to install the CRYRING storage ring behind the existing...
Mr
Frank Wienholtz
(Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universitaet (DE))
15/12/2014, 17:20
Submitted
The high-precision mass spectrometer ISOTLRAP has been pioneering Penning-trap mass measurements of exotic nuclei already since 1987, when it was installed at the ISOLDE 1 facility, connected to CERN’s Synchrocyclotron (SC). After the move of ISOLDE to the Proton Synchrotron Booster (PSB) in 1990, the ISOLTRAP experiment reassumed its successful mass-measurement campaign on short-lived nuclei,...
Kevin Edmonds
(urn:Facebook)
16/12/2014, 09:00
Invited
The epitaxial diluted magnetic semiconductor (Ga,Mn)As is a model system for investigating spin and spin-orbit phenomena in magnetic and semiconducting systems. Studies of this compound have led to the elucidation of new functionalities in experimental spintronic devices, including optical and electrical control of the magnetic order, with general applicability to a wide range of material...
Mrs
Juliana Marques ramos
(Instituto de Pesquisas Energéticas e Nucleares / Helmholtz-Institut für Strahlen- und Kernphysik)
16/12/2014, 09:30
Submitted
Thin films and powder samples of intrinsic and transition metal doped titanium dioxide were investigated by an atomic resolution hyperfine nuclear technique in order to study the relation between defects and ferromagnetism. Complementarily, the crystalline structure, morphology and composition of the samples were investigated by X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and...
Haraldur Gunnlaugsson
(Aarhus University)
16/12/2014, 09:45
Submitted
The Mössbauer collaboration at ISOLDE/CERN applies short lived isotopes for emission Mössbauer spectroscopy (eMS) within material sciences. Mössbauer spectroscopy (MS) gives various detailed information on the probe atoms, through the hyperfine interactions. There are several benefits of eMS in particular we can perform measurements in the extremely dilute regime (~10$^{-4}$ at. %) and make...
Mr
Tiago Lima
(KU Leuven, Instituut voor Kern en Stralingsfysica, 3001 Leuven, Belgium)
16/12/2014, 10:00
Submitted
Mn-doped GaAs, or (Ga,Mn)As, has become the model system in which to explore the physics of carrier-mediated ferromagnetism in semiconductors and the associated spintronic phenomena [1]. In particular, as the most widely studied dilute magnetic semiconductors (DMS), (Ga,Mn)As is an ideal example of how the magnetic behavior of DMS materials is strongly influenced by the lattice sites occupied...
Dr
Alexandre Obertelli
(CEA Saclay)
16/12/2014, 10:45
Invited
Direct reactions in inverse kinematics at low energies are essential tools to study the shell structure of unstable nuclei. Transfer reactions allow to determine the distribution of the spectroscopic strength, necessary to investigate the shell evolution across the nuclear landscape. Proton-induced elastic and inelastic scattering give access to unique information about collectivity and matter...
Dr
Daniel Doherty
(CEA Saclay)
16/12/2014, 11:15
Submitted
The region surrounding the neutron number N = 60 for the Sr and Zr isotopic chains is an interesting example of shape evolution. Starting from the N = 50 closed spherical shell, and removing a few neutrons, the Sr and Zr isotopes become well deformed. On the neutron-rich side of these isotopic chains, N = 56 is observed to become an effective sub-shell closure with $^{96}$Zr exhibiting the...
Christophe Sotty
(KU Leuven (BE))
16/12/2014, 11:30
Submitted
The neutron-rich A=100 mass region has recently risen up a high interest of the nuclear structure community. When going from N=58 to N=60, a rapid shape transition occurs from spherical to well deformed ground state shape, similar to what is observed in the rare earths region. This region firstly accessible by fission [1] has been later studied by mass and laser spectroscopy (e.g. [2]), which...
Pierre Delahaye
(Grand Accelerateur National d'Ions Lourds (FR))
16/12/2014, 11:45
Submitted
In this contribution we discuss the potentials of a new technique of optical orientation of radioactive ions trapped in an open Paul trap, permitting to reach a very high degree of polarization, for beta decay experiments.
More precisely, laser polarization of the alkali-earth ions 23Mg+ and 39Ca+ in a Paul trap and detection of the emitted electron and recoil ion shall enable the...
Prof.
Berta Rubio
(IFIC)
16/12/2014, 13:20
Invited
The study of the properties of nuclei far from stability is one of the main frontiers of modern nuclear physics.
Among many possible observables for nuclear structure, the $\beta$ decay strengths provide important testing grounds for nuclear structure theories far from stability. The mechanism of $\beta$ decay is well understood and dominated by allowed Fermi (F) and Gamow-Teller (GT)...
James Gerald Cubiss
(University of York (GB))
16/12/2014, 13:40
Submitted
J. G. Cubiss*
University of York (UK)
The competition between spherical and deformed configurations at low energy gives rise to shape coexistence in the neutron-deficient isotopes around the Z=82 shell closure [1], while on the neutron-rich side effects due to octupole deformation could be important. In order to determine the extent to which the ground and isomeric states of these...
Dr
Franck Delaunay
(LPC Caen, France)
16/12/2014, 13:55
Submitted
Beta-decay spectroscopy is one of the most important tools for the study of nuclear structure. In exotic nuclei beta-decay can often be followed by the emission of delayed particles, a process which becomes the dominant decay channel when approaching the driplines. In the most exotic species, the emission of two or more delayed particles can also occur with a significant...
Razvan Lica
(IFIN-HH Bucharest (RO))
16/12/2014, 14:10
Submitted
We have investigated levels in $^{129}$Sn populated from the $\beta^-$ decay of $^{129}$In isomers at the ISOLDE facility.
The $^{129}$Sn nucleus is a three-neutron hole system next to the doubly magic $^{132}$Sn.
The involved states of spin $1/2^+$ and $3/2^+$ are expected to have a configuration determined by the neutron $s_{1/2}$ and $d_{3/2}$ single particle states, respectively....
Martin Veselsky
(Slovak Academy of Sciences (SK))
16/12/2014, 14:25
Submitted
Summary of the work, performed as a part of the project Eurisol Design Study, will be presented and possibilities for further activities at the HIE-ISOLDE will be discussed. As a part of the Eurisol Design Study, dedicated task Beam Intensity Calculation focused on possibilities to predict achievable secondary beam intensities at the ISOL facility using the spallation reaction. Model...
Robert John Carroll
(University of Surrey (GB))
16/12/2014, 14:40
Submitted
Results from the recent 207Tl experiment using the ISOLDE Decay Station
with triggerless data acquisition.
R. J. Carroll1, Zs. Podolyák1, E. Rapisarda2, T. Alexander1, A. Algora3, A. Andreyev4, S. Ansari5, F. Browne6, A. Bruce6, B. Cheal7, T. E. Cocolios8, J. Cubriss4, Zs. Dombrádi9, P. Van Duppen10, K. Flanagan8, L. M. Fraile11, C. Fahlander12, W. Gelletly1, R.-B. Gerst5, M. Gorska13,...
Nico Orce
(University of the Western Cape)
16/12/2014, 15:20
Invited
HIE-ISOLDE will revolutionize the scientific outcome of muti-step Coulomb excitation and reorientation effect measurements. Particularly, in reorientation effect measurements, the magnitude and sign of the diagonal matrix element for the first 2+ excitation in even-even nuclei will be determined with a higher degree of precision, which will improve our current understanding of phenomena such...
Georgi Georgiev
(CSNSM)
16/12/2014, 15:45
Invited
The ALTO facility consists in two accelerators within the same installation. A Tandem accelerator dedicated to stable (ions and cluster) beam and a linear electron accelerator dedicated to the production of radioactive beams. The ALTO facility can deliver radioactive beams, stable beams and cluster beams having a large physics case from nuclear structure to atomic physics, cluster physics,...
Prof.
Peter Reiter
(University Cologne, Nuclear Physics Institut)
16/12/2014, 16:10
Invited
The Advanced GAmma Tracking Array is a next generation high-resolution gamma-ray spectrometer for nuclear structure studies based on the novel principle of gamma-ray tracking. It will be built from a novel type of high-fold segmented germanium detectors which will operate in position-sensitive mode by employing digital electronics and pulse-shape decomposition algorithms. AGATA is and will be...
Yacine Kadi
(CERN)
16/12/2014, 16:35
Invited
After 20 years of successful ISOLDE operation at the PS-Booster, a major upgrade of the facility, the HIE-ISOLDE (High Intensity and Energy ISOLDE) project was launched in 2010. It is divided into three parts; a staged upgrade of the REX post-accelerator to increase the beam energy from 3.3 MeV/u to 10 MeV/u using a super-conducting Linac, an evaluation of the critical issues associated with...
Pilippos Papadakis
(University of Jyvaskyla (FI))
16/12/2014, 17:00
Submitted
The SPEDE spectrometer [1, 2] aims to combine a silicon detector, for the detection of electrons, with the MINIBALL $\gamma$-ray detection array for in-beam studies employing radioactive ion beams at the HIE-ISOLDE facility at CERN. SPEDE is one of the first attempts to combine in-beam $\gamma$-ray and conversion electron spectroscopy with radioactive ion beams.
The setup will be primarily...
Roger Forty
(CERN)
16/12/2014, 17:15
Invited
The LHC is the highest energy collider in the world, and has run successfully over recent years. The experiments at the LHC will be briefly reviewed, along with some of their key results from the first run. Particular focus will be made on the dedicated flavour-physics experiment LHCb, and prospects for the future run.
Prof.
Torleif Ericson
(CERN (retired))
17/12/2014, 09:00
Invited
A constellation of special circumstances made the approval of ISOLDE possible, in spite of the main priority of CERN as an elementary particle physics laboratory. I have personally experienced some of these as a post-doc at CERN as will be briefly discussed.
Bjorn Jonson
(Institute of Theoretical Physics)
17/12/2014, 09:15
Invited
On December 17, 1964 the CERN DG, Victor Weisskopf, sent a letter to the ISOLDE Collaboration giving green light to perform experiments at CERN. An underground hall was built close to the SC, which accelerated protons to 600MeV energy. The first experiment at ISOLDE was preformed on September 17, 1967. In my talk I shall cover the first years of experiments at ISOLDE at CERN, the SC...
H.-Jürgen Kluge
(GSI)
17/12/2014, 09:45
Invited
This report describes my time at CERN from 1985 to 1987. Only very briefly before, ISOLDE was recognized by the CERN Management as a CERN facility and not only as a collaboration performing experiments at the synchrocyclotron (SC). Due to LEP construction the human resources were extremely restricted and I acted in one person as ISOLDE Group Leader, as Coordinator of the Synchrocyclotron, and...
Heinz Haas
(CERN-ISOLDE)
17/12/2014, 10:05
Invited
In 1987 the very successful operation of ISOLDE-2 could be continued with an ever increasing number of users. The ISOLDE-3 facility was finished in 1988 and made available too, even in high-resolution mode. As it was evident that post-acceleration of the radioactive beams would be needed in the future, a first project with a series of linacs was forwarded.
It had been clear, however, that...
Prof.
Piet Van Duppen
(KU Leuven (BE))
17/12/2014, 10:25
Invited
Soon after the commissioning of ISOLDE at the PS-Booster facility, first experiments took place. This contribution will discuss highlights from the 1993-1995 period with a special focus on the preparatory work for the proposal to post-accelerate the ISOLDE beams. This lead eventually to the approval of the "Radioactive beam EXperiments at ISOLDE: Coulomb excitation and neutron transfer...
Georg Bollen
(Michigan State University)
17/12/2014, 11:05
Invited
1996-1999 was a time in which ISOLDE saw important changes. In order to make space for REX-ISOLDE the experimental hall saw its first extension and first equipment for REX-ISOLDE was installed and commissioned.
Prof.
Juha Äystö
(Helsinki Institute of Physics)
17/12/2014, 11:25
Invited
At the transition to the twenty first century ISOLDE was undergoing a major upgrade from a very successful low-energy radioactive ion beam facility towards a new era of nuclear structure studies employing accelerated radioactive beams [1]. The first accelerated beam was obtained in November 2001 when REX-ISOLDE produced a 2.2 MeV/u beam of 26Na ions. Additionally, the ISOLDE complex was made...
Prof.
Peter Butler
(University of Liverpool (GB))
17/12/2014, 11:45
Invited
This presentation summarises the highlights at ISOLDE during my time as group leader 2002-2005
Dr
Karsten Riisager
(Aarhus University (DK))
17/12/2014, 12:05
Invited
In the years leading up to the first beams in LHC in the autumn 2008 most CERN efforts were focussed on finishing the LHC. Still, ISOLDE managed to evolve and broaden its physics scope. I shall give a brief overview of the main events taking place at ISOLDE in the period 2005-2008, including the consolidation of the existing infrastructure and the preparations for the HIE-ISOLDE project, and...
Yorick Blumenfeld
(Institut de Physique Nucléaire Orsay)
17/12/2014, 12:25
Invited
I will give some highlights about my time as ISOLDE Physics Group Leader from 2008 to 2012.
Abel Eduardo Da Silva Fenta
(University of Aveiro (PT))
Poster
The one-atom-thick crystal - graphene, uniquely combines many exotic properties such as huge mechanical strength with high electronic and thermal conductivities, among others, which make it interesting for fundamental physics and applications. Its properties strongly depend on surface and interface nanoscale interactions, where the physical models should apply aiming their understanding and...
Ruben Pieter De Groote
(KU Leuven (BE))
Poster
The progress towards high-resolution laser spectroscopy at the Collinear Resonance Ionization Spectroscopy (CRIS) experiment will be presented. This high spectral resolution is necessary to access nuclear observables like the electrical quadrupole moment, the spin and the change in mean charge radii of e.g. the ground states and isomers of the neutron-rich Ga and Cu isotopes (IS571 and IS531)....
Adeleh Mokhles Gerami
(K.N Toosi University of Technology (IR))
Poster
Emission Mossbauer spectroscopy using the radioactive probe $^{57}$Mn $\rightarrow$ $^{57}$Fe has been performed by the Mossbauer Collaboration at ISOLDE. Among the materials studied have been semiconductors such as MgO, ZnO which are potentially interesting for dilute magnetism [1-4].
In order to better interpret experimental results, hyperfine parameters were obtained using first...
Marcelo Baptista Barbosa
(Universidade do Porto (PT))
Poster
Transparent conductive oxides (TCOs) are widely studied today because of being electrically conductive while being optically transparent, which make them quite desirable for technological applications.
Among the TCOs family, gallium oxide (Ga2O3) has the widest band-gap, 4.8 eV, making it interesting for photonic applications working in the visible and UV wavelength region. Ga2O3 is an...
Dr
Marion MacCORMICK
(Institut National de Physique Nucleaire... (IN3P3))
Poster
Isobaric Analog States (IAS) of ground state nuclei have been evaluated for the first time as part of the Atomic Mass Evaluation (AME). These states in light- to medium-weight nuclei are of interest in several areas of fundamental physics. Here we focus on mass modelling, with the determination of the Coulomb energy component which, in turn, allows us to test Wigner's Isobaric Multiplet Mass...
Prof.
Kairat Kuterbekov
(L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University)
Poster
Design, development and production of new experimental techniques at ISOLDE to measure:
- Angular distributions of differential cross-sections (ADDCS) of elastic and inelastic scattering with high energy and angular resolution;
- Total reaction cross-sections (TRCS) and excitation functions.
Preliminary research to direct experiments:
- Conduction of control and test measurements of...
Stavroula Pallada
(Hellenic Republic Democritus University of Thrace (GR))
Poster
S. Pallada${}^{a,b,d}$, J. T. Pedersen${}^{c}$, J. Vibenholt${}^{c}$ , K. Johnston${}^{a}$, M. K. Stachura${}^{a}$, M. Schau- Magnussen${}^{b}$, P. W. Thulstrup${}^{b}$ and L. Hemmingsen${}^{b}$*
${}^{a}$The European Organization for Nuclear Research, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
${}^{b}$University of Copenhagen, Department of Chemistry, Universitetsparken 5, DK-2100 Copenhagen,...
Robert Christian Mertzig
(Technische Universitaet Dresden (DE))
Poster
The TWINEBIS is a replica of REXEBIS used for off-line research and development. REXEBIS is designed to provide a stable 500 mA electron beam at an electron energy of approximately 6.5 keV. During long term operation the REXEBIS is typically run only at 200 mA for reliability purposes. The full design value operation was never used in practice.
Recently the first 500 mA electron beam was...
Dmitry Kisler
(Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (DE))
Poster
ISOLTRAP is a state-of-the-art experiment at ISOLDE-CERN for Penning-trap mass spectrometry of short-lived nuclides [1, 2]. The Phase-Imaging Ion-Cyclotron-Resonance (PI-ICR) [3] technique, recently developed by SHIPTRAP at GSI, is a promising approach to gain precision and mass resolving power for Penning-trap spectrometers. Its use would lead to an enhancement in precision of a factor of 5...
Dr
Moumita MAITI
(Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee)
Poster
**Is Classical Chemistry Relevant for Converter Targets?**
Moumita Maiti+, Susanta Lahiri++
+Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee 247667, India
++Saha Insititute of Nuclear Physics, 1/AF Bidhannagar, Kolkata 700064, India
The inventory of the radionuclides produced in 1.4 GeV proton irradiated lead bismuth (LBE) targets has been indicated in our...
Ricardo Cesar Carvalho Teixeira
(Instituto Superior Tecnico (PT))
Poster
Manganites and their exquisite electronic properties have been extensively studied in the last decade due to both fundamental interest and possible applications of colossal magnetoresistance, magnetocaloric and multiferroicc properties [1,2]. Additionally, low-cost AMnO3 and doped manganites have shown promising results for catalysts solutions [3,4]. In these systems orbital...
Angelo Rafael Granadeiro Costa
(Instituto Superior Tecnico (PT))
Poster
SiC is a wide band gap semiconductor with an increasing number of applications in high-temperature electronics. Similar to Si, transition metals (TMs) in SiC are the source of deep levels in the band gap, however, the knowledge on structural properties of TMs in SiC, such as possible lattice sites, is much less advanced.
In this work we report first results on the lattice site location of...
Dr
Paramasivan Arumugam
(Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Uttarakhand 247667, India)
Poster
Measuring the proton emission decay widths and corroborating them with microscopic calculations have yielded rich information about the structure and decay properties of proton drip nuclei. The spectroscopic data on the low lying states of these nuclei are also crucial in complementing the information from decay widths. Apart from proton emitters, the spectroscopic data of low lying states...
Gry Merete Tveten
(University of Oslo)
Poster
The higher beam energy, and improved beam qualities, that HIE-ISOLDE will offer opens the door to new possibilities for nuclear reaction studies at the facility. Simulation results for a mass separator device and a ray-tracing spectrometer for secondary reactions with post-accelerated beams will be presented. Realistic HIE-ISOLDE parameters are used as input to the simulations and a variety of...
Mr
Riccardo for the IS467 and IS504 collaborations Raabe
(KU Leuven, Instituut voor Kern- en Stralingsfysica)
Poster
The region around the nucleus 68Ni, with a shell closure at Z = 28 and a sub-shell closure at N = 40, is the source of considerable interest in nuclear-structure studies. Despite a significant set of experimental and theoretical information available on 68Ni [1-5], the origin of its structure is still being questioned. A recent clarification of the energy and spin assignment of several...
