ISOLDE Workshop and Users meeting 2009

Session

Session 8: Spectroscopy

19 Nov 2009, 16:00

503/1-001 - Council Chamber (CERN)

36. Fast timing studies at ISOLDE: highlights and perspectives

Luis M Fraile (UCM)

19/11/2009, 16:00

The measurement of absolute nuclear transition probabilities is a very sensitive tool to study the structure of the atomic nucleus. Direct access to transition rates can be achieved via the lifetime of nuclear levels de-populated in radioactive decay. The Advanced Time-Delayed (ATD) method, or Fast timing, is a well-established technique to measure lifetimes ranging from 5 ps to 50 ns with...

21. The ISOLTRAP tape station system

Magdalena Kowalska (CERN)

19/11/2009, 16:30

Penning traps are ideal tools not only for high-precision mass measurements, but also for isobaric and even isomeric beam purification. A system for beta- and gamma- spectroscopy installed behind the trap can be used for both assisting mass measurements and performing decay spectroscopy on pure samples in regions where contamination hampers standard measurements. Installing such a system at...

4. Progress and future outlook for the CRIS project at ISOLDE

Kieran Flanagan (The University of Manchester)

19/11/2009, 16:50

The new Collinear Resonant Ionization Spectroscopy (CRIS) experiment aims to study the rarest isotopes produced at ISOLDE by using a combination of two techniques: resonant ionization spectroscopy (RIS) and collinear laser spectroscopy. The initial proposal will study the rare Francium isotopes. On the neutron-deficient side the role of the deformed (πs1/2-1)1/2+ intruder state will be...

11. Biological applications of Perturbed Angular Correlations of γ-rays spectroscopy

Monika Stachura (University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Life Sciences)

19/11/2009, 17:10

Perturbed Angular Correlation of γ-rays (PAC) spectroscopy is a techinque routinely used in solid state physics. However, it has also proved to be a method that allows for studies of biological systems, such as local structure at metal ion binding sites, dynamics of protein folding or protein–protein interactions. In the present work we have selected some of the biological applications that...