Laser spectroscopy for nuclear structure physics

P Campbell, ID Moore, MR Pearson - Progress in Particle and Nuclear …, 2016 - Elsevier
High-resolution laser spectroscopy is an established powerful tool in the study of nuclear
shape, size and multipole moments. Measurements of the hyperfine structures and isotope …

Nuclear radii and moments of unstable isotopes

EW Otten - Treatise on Heavy Ion Science: Volume 8: Nuclei Far …, 1989 - Springer
The development of on-line mass separators, which provide long chains of isotopes
extending far off stability, immediately raised the question of how to gain access to the basic …

Characterization of the shape-staggering effect in mercury nuclei

BA Marsh, T Day Goodacre, S Sels, Y Tsunoda… - Nature Physics, 2018 - nature.com
In rare cases, the removal of a single proton (Z) or neutron (N) from an atomic nucleus leads
to a dramatic shape change. These instances are crucial for understanding the components …

Laser Spectroscopy of Neutron-Rich Isotopes: Illuminating the Kink and Odd-Even Staggering in Charge Radii across the Shell Closure

T Day Goodacre, AV Afanasjev, AE Barzakh, BA Marsh… - Physical review …, 2021 - APS
The mean-square charge radii of Hg 207, 208 (Z= 80, N= 127, 128) have been studied for
the first time and those of Hg 202, 203, 206 (N= 122, 123, 126) remeasured by the …

Large shape staggering in neutron-deficient Bi isotopes

A Barzakh, AN Andreyev, C Raison, JG Cubiss… - Physical review …, 2021 - APS
The changes in the mean-square charge radius (relative to Bi 209), magnetic dipole, and
electric quadrupole moments of Bi 187, 188, 189, 191 were measured using the in-source …

Precision atomic physics techniques for nuclear physics with radioactive beams

K Blaum, J Dilling, W Nörtershäuser - Physica Scripta, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
Atomic physics techniques for the determination of ground-state properties of radioactive
isotopes are very sensitive and provide accurate masses, binding energies, Q-values …

Ion beam production and study of radioactive isotopes with the laser ion source at ISOLDE

V Fedosseev, K Chrysalidis, TD Goodacre… - Journal of Physics G …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
At ISOLDE the majority of radioactive ion beams are produced using the resonance
ionization laser ion source (RILIS). This ion source is based on resonant excitation of atomic …

Nuclear field shift effect in isotope fractionation of mercury during abiotic reduction in the absence of light

W Zheng, H Hintelmann - The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2010 - ACS Publications
We investigated the abiotic reduction of inorganic Hg (II) by dissolved organic matter (DOM)
and stannous (II) chloride (SnCl2) in the absence of light and quantified fractionation of Hg …

Deformation versus sphericity in the ground states of the lightest gold isotopes

JG Cubiss, AN Andreyev, AE Barzakh, P Van Duppen… - Physical review …, 2023 - APS
The changes in mean-squared charge radii of neutron-deficient gold nuclei have been
determined using the in-source, resonance-ionization laser spectroscopy technique, at the …

Sensitivity of nuclear clock transition to variation of the fine-structure constant

P Fadeev, JC Berengut, VV Flambaum - Physical Review A, 2020 - APS
Peik and Tamm [Europhys. Lett. 61, 181 (2003) EULEEJ 0295-5075 10.1209/epl/i2003-
00210-x] proposed a nuclear clock based on the isomeric transition between the ground …