The TRIUMF-ISAC facility: two decades of discovery with rare isotope beams

GC Ball, G Hackman, R Krücken - Physica Scripta, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Since 1999, the TRIUMF-ISAC facility has been providing rare isotope beams for nuclear
physics experiments. The three pillars of the program are nuclear structure, nuclear …

The GRIFFIN data acquisition system

AB Garnsworthy, CJ Pearson, D Bishop, B Shaw… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract Gamma-Ray Infrastructure For Fundamental Investigations of Nuclei, GRIFFIN, is a
new experimental facility for radioactive decay studies at the TRIUMF-ISAC laboratory. This …

Structure and symmetries of the weak interaction in nuclear beta decay

N Severijns, O Naviliat-Cuncic - Physica Scripta, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
The beta decay process offers unique possibilities to search for so-called exotic, non-
standard model components in the weak interaction, and for testing its fundamental …

Half-lives of neutron-rich

R Dunlop, V Bildstein, I Dillmann, A Jungclaus… - Physical Review C, 2016 - APS
The β-decay half-lives of Cd 128–130 have been measured with the newly commissioned
GRIFFIN γ-ray spectrometer at the TRIUMF-ISAC facility. The time structures of the most …

The 8π spectrometer

AB Garnsworthy, PE Garrett - Hyperfine Interactions, 2014 - Springer
The 8 π spectrometer installed at the TRIUMF-ISAC radioactive beam facility provides a
powerful and versatile detection system for radioactive decay, allowing measurements of γ …

High-precision efficiency calibration of a high-purity co-axial germanium detector

B Blank, J Souin, P Ascher, L Audirac… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2015 - Elsevier
A high-purity co-axial germanium detector has been calibrated in efficiency to a precision of
about 0.15% over a wide energy range. High-precision scans of the detector crystal and γ …

ASIC for SDD-based X-ray spectrometers

G De Geronimo, P Rehak, K Ackley… - … on Nuclear Science, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) for high-resolution x-ray
spectrometers (XRS). The ASIC reads out signals from pixelated silicon drift detectors …

High-precision half-life measurements for the superallowed Fermi emitter O

AT Laffoley, CE Svensson, C Andreoiu, RAE Austin… - Physical Review C …, 2013 - APS
The half-life of the superallowed Fermi β+ emitter 14 O has been determined via
simultaneous direct β and γ counting experiments at TRIUMF's Isotope Separator and …

Far From 'Easy'Spectroscopy with the 8π and GRIFFIN Spectrometers at TRIUMF-ISAC

PE Garrett, AJ Radich, JM Allmond… - Journal of Physics …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
The 8π spectrometer, installed at the TRIUMF-ISAC facility, was the world's most sensitive γ-
ray spectrometer dedicated to β-decay studies. A description is given of the 8π spectrometer …

High-Precision Half-Life Measurements for the Superallowed Emitter : Implications for Weak Scalar Currents

MR Dunlop, CE Svensson, GC Ball, GF Grinyer… - Physical Review Letters, 2016 - APS
Precision measurements of superallowed Fermi β-decay transitions, particularly for the
lightest superallowed emitters C 10 and O 14, set stringent limits on possible scalar current …