The ISOLTRAP experiment at ISOLDE/CERN is a Penning trap mass spectrometer for on-line mass measurements on short-lived radionuclides. It allows the determination of nuclear binding energies of exotic nuclides to 10-8 precision. Recent improvements have extended ISOLTRAP's applicability to nuclides that are produced with yields as low as a few 100 ions/s and half-lives well below 100 ms. Highlights include mass measurements on 32Ar (T1/2 = 98 ms) and 74Rb (T1/2 = 65 ms), as well as the production of isomerically pure ensembles. The talk will give an overview of the performance of the experiment and detail results on recent measurements that serve as crucial input for fundamental studies, such as a test of the conserved vector current (CVC) hypothesis of the weak interaction and the unitary of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa (CKM) matrix.
Organiser(s): C. Amelung / PH-EP Department
Note: Please note unusual room.
Tea & coffee will be served at 16.00 hrs.
