Speaker
Description
The studies of ground-state properties of short-lived nuclei – masses, spins and parities, charge radii, electromagnetic moments and radioactive decay – have been ISOLDE’s strength since a long time. This is thanks to the large choice in beams, their very good quality and high intensity, but also because many of the most precise techniques needed for these investigations have been initiated and/or mastered at ISOLDE. To these belong Penning traps, collinear (resonance) laser spectroscopy, or laser-induced nuclear spin- polarisation and beta-detected NMR, and high-precision nuclear decay spectroscopy.
The upgrades included in the EPIC project will allow to strengthen the leading role that ISOLDE plays in the above studies. This concerns higher production rates, parallel beam delivery, or the addition of a storage ring.
In this contribution I will give a general overview how the EPIC project can profit studies of nuclear ground-state properties. I will then illustrate it with selected examples across the techniques and the physics cases, both in nuclear physics and in precision tests of nuclear decay aiming at tests of the Standard model, such as the unitarity of the CKM-matrix or the appearance of new interactions.