Conveners
Nuclear Physics
- Simon Lechner (CERN, TU Wien)
Nuclear Physics
- Simon Lechner (CERN, TU Wien)
The study of exotic nuclei far from the valley of stability provides basic information for a better understanding of nuclear structure and the synthesis of the elements in the universe. It is of special interest to probe the edges of stability with their unexpected and novel properties. The nucleus $^{100}$Sn is the heaviest self-conjugate doubly-magic nucleus in the chart of nuclides, and...
Type I X-ray bursts occur at astrophysical sites where a neutron star accretes H/He-rich matter from a companion star, leading to nuclear burning on the neutron star surface. The only observable is the X-ray burst light curve, which is used as a unique diagnostic of the outer layers of accreting neutron stars such the accretion rate and fuel composition. In addition to the astrophysical...
Recent technical developments and experimental results from the ISOLTRAP mass spectrometer at ISOLDE/CERN will be presented in this contribution. During CERN’s Long Shutdown 2 (LS2), a large variety of technical upgrades and maintenance work have been performed. Most significantly, a new offline reference ion source has been built and commissioned, combining a surface ion source and a laser...
High-precision mass measurements are essential for understanding the structure of exotic nuclei. These measurements serve as excellent tests of the latest nuclear models and provide key inputs for calculations in nuclear astrophysics. Light nuclei at the limits of nuclear binding are particularly important, as they are accessible with various ab-initio models, and so provide good tests for how...
Mass measurements of exotic nuclei with high precision are of big interest for nuclear physics and nuclear astrophysics. They give access to nuclear binding energies permitting to explore nuclear shell structure. They are also entries for nucleosynthesis models and allow discriminating between different models. The principal spectrometers to perform high precision mass measurements are those...
The detection of the double-beta decay mode which would reveal the nature of the neutrino, Dirac or Majorana, is an extremely rare event where two emitted electrons share all the available energy of the decay and no neutrino is emitted. The current experiments in the search of such decay mode are far from a background-free condition, and the level of background achieved plays a crucial role in...
The Multi Ion Reflection Apparatus for Collinear Laser Spectroscopy (MIRACLS) represents a new approach for precision measurements of nuclear ground-state properties in short-lived radionuclides. Conventional Collinear Laser Spectroscopy (CLS) [1-3] requires ion yields of more than 100-10000 ions per second, depending on the element, delivered from a radioactive ion beam (RIB) facility to...
Ever since its introduction in the mid 1970s, laser cooling has become a fundamental technique to prepare and control ions and atoms for a wide range of precision experiments.
In the realm of rare isotope science, for instance, specific atom species of short-lived radionuclides have been laser-cooled for fundamental-symmetries studies [1] or for measurements of hyperfine-structure constants...
Study on exotic nuclei has become one of the research frontiers in nuclear physics. They can be produced by bombarding an energetic (MeV~GeV) projectile onto a target. Among various products, the ions of interest can be promptly and efficiently selected by in-flight separation. To precisely measure their properties, it is preferable to couple a low-energy (eV~keV) experimental terminal to the...