The production of about half of the heavy elements found in nature is assigned to a specific
astrophysical nucleosynthesis process: the rapid neutron-capture process (r process) …

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 …

Atomic masses of seven T z=− 1, fp-shell nuclei from V 44 to Cu 56 and two low-lying
isomers, V 44 m (J π= 6+) and Co 52 m (J π= 2+), have been measured with relative …

The rapid neutron capture process (r process) is believed to be responsible for about half of
the production of the elements heavier than iron and contributes to abundances of some …

The last decades brought impressive progress in synthesizing and studying properties of
nuclides located very far from the beta stability line. Among the most fundamental properties …

Presented are features of the in-flight radioactive isotope (RI) beam separators in Japan as
well as of a next-generation separator BigRIPS being built at RIKEN for the RI-beam factory …

The secondary-beam facility of GSI Darmstadt was used to study the fission properties of 70
short-lived radioactive nuclei. Most of them have not been accessible so far in conventional …

A radioactive beam facility based on projectile fragmentation, RIPS, has been constructed at
RIKEN to enable radioactive-beam experiments. The facility is characterized by the …

We have developed a method for achieving excellent resolving power in in-flight particle
identification of radioactive isotope (RI) beams at the BigRIPS fragment separator at the …

The dipole strength distribution above the one-neutron separation energy was measured in
the unstable Sn 130 and the double-magic Sn 132 isotopes. The results were deduced from …