Speaker
Dr
Klaus Blaum
(Univeristy of Mainz)
Description
Like few other parameters, the mass of an atom, and its inherent connection with the
atomic and nuclear binding energy is a fundamental property, a unique fingerprint of
the atomic nucleus. Each nuclide comes with its own mass value different from all
others. For short-lived exotic atomic nuclei the importance of its mass ranges from
the verification of nuclear models to a test of the Standard Model, in particular
with regard to the weak interaction and the unitarity of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-
Maskawa quark mixing matrix. In respect to the later application the most important
recent results on the measurement of decay energies Q but also on the study of half-
lives T1/2 and branching ratios R will be discussed.
Primary author
Dr
Klaus Blaum
(Univeristy of Mainz)
