Nucleosynthesis and observation of the heaviest elements

EM Holmbeck, TM Sprouse, MR Mumpower - The European Physical …, 2023 - Springer
The rapid neutron capture or 'r process' of nucleosynthesis is believed to be responsible for
the production of approximately half the natural abundance of heavy elements found on the …

Precise mass measurements of radioactive nuclides for astrophysics

J Clark, G Savard, M Mumpower… - The European Physical …, 2023 - Springer
Much of astrophysics is fueled by nuclear physics with observables, such as energy output
and elements produced, that are heavily dependent on the masses of the nuclides. A mass …

Mass Measurement of Upper -Shell and Nuclei and the Importance of Three-Nucleon Force along the Line

M Wang, YH Zhang, X Zhou, XH Zhou, HS Xu, ML Liu… - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
Using a novel method of isochronous mass spectrometry, the masses of Ge 62, As 64, Se
66, and Kr 70 are measured for the first time, and the masses of Zn 58, Ga 61, Ge 63, As 65 …

-defined isochronous mass spectrometry: An approach for high-precision mass measurements of short-lived nuclei

M Wang, M Zhang, X Zhou, YH Zhang, YA Litvinov… - Physical Review C, 2022 - APS
A technique for broadband high-precision mass measurements of short-lived exotic nuclides
is reported. It is based on the isochronous mass spectrometry (IMS) and realizes …

High-Precision Mass Measurements of Neutron Deficient Silver Isotopes Probe the Robustness of the Shell Closure

Z Ge, M Reponen, T Eronen, B Hu, M Kortelainen… - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
High-precision mass measurements of exotic Ag 95–97 isotopes close to the N= Z line have
been conducted with the JYFLTRAP double Penning trap mass spectrometer, with the silver …

Electromagnetic properties of indium isotopes illuminate the doubly magic character of 100Sn

J Karthein, CM Ricketts, RF Garcia Ruiz, J Billowes… - Nature Physics, 2024 - nature.com
Understanding the nuclear properties in the vicinity of 100Sn, which has been suggested to
be the heaviest doubly magic nucleus with proton number Z equal to neutron number N, has …

The new MRTOF mass spectrograph following the ZeroDegree spectrometer at RIKEN's RIBF facility

M Rosenbusch, M Wada, S Chen, A Takamine… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2023 - Elsevier
A newly assembled multi-reflection time-of-flight mass spectrograph (MRTOF-MS) at
RIKEN's RIBF facility became operational for the first time in spring 2020; further …

Isomeric Excitation Energy for from Mass Spectrometry Reveals Constant Trend Next to Doubly Magic

L Nies, D Atanasov, M Athanasakis-Kaklamanakis… - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
The excitation energy of the 1/2− isomer in In 99 at N= 50 is measured to be 671 (37) keV
and the mass uncertainty of the 9/2+ ground state is significantly reduced using the …

Effective shell-model interaction for nuclei “southeast” of

ZH Sun, G Hagen, GR Jansen, T Papenbrock - Physical Review C, 2021 - APS
We construct an effective shell-model interaction for the valence space spanned by single-
particle neutron and single-hole proton states in Sn 100. Starting from chiral nucleon …

Isochronous mass measurements of neutron-deficient nuclei from projectile fragmentation

YM **ng, CX Yuan, M Wang, YH Zhang, XH Zhou… - Physical Review C, 2023 - APS
Masses of Sn 112 projectile fragments were measured employing isochronous mass
spectrometry at the Cooler Storage Ring in Lanzhou. Different from the previous data …