What are the astrophysical sites for the r-process and the production of heavy elements?

FK Thielemann, A Arcones, R Käppeli… - Progress in Particle and …, 2011 - Elsevier
This article addresses three of the four nucleosynthesis processes involved in producing
heavy nuclei beyond Fe (with a main focus on the r-process). Opposite to the fourth process …

Penning traps as a versatile tool for precise experiments in fundamental physics

K Blaum, YN Novikov, G Werth - Contemporary Physics, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
This review article describes the trap** of charged particles. The main principles of
electromagnetic confinement of various species from elementary particles to heavy atoms …

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 …

ISOLTRAP's multi-reflection time-of-flight mass separator/spectrometer

RN Wolf, F Wienholtz, D Atanasov, D Beck… - International Journal of …, 2013 - Elsevier
The online precision mass spectrometer ISOLTRAP at ISOLDE/CERN was recently
upgraded by adding a multi-reflection time-of-flight mass separator/spectrometer (MR-ToF …

JYFLTRAP: a Penning trap for precision mass spectroscopy and isobaric purification

T Eronen, VS Kolhinen, VV Elomaa, D Gorelov… - Three decades of …, 2014 - Springer
In this article a comprehensive description and performance of the double Penning-trap
setup JYFLTRAP will be detailed. The setup is designed for atomic mass measurements of …

Direct mass measurements above uranium bridge the gap to the island of stability

M Block, D Ackermann, K Blaum, C Droese… - Nature, 2010 - nature.com
The mass of an atom incorporates all its constituents and their interactions. The difference
between the mass of an atom and the sum of its building blocks (the binding energy) is a …

Observation of heteronuclear atomic Efimov resonances

G Barontini, C Weber, F Rabatti, J Catani… - Physical review …, 2009 - APS
Building on the recent experimental observation with ultracold atoms, we report the first
experimental evidence of Efimov physics in a heteronuclear system. A mixture of K 41 and …

Direct Mass Measurements of Short-Lived Nuclides , , , and and Their Impact on Nucleosynthesis in the Process

XL Tu, HS Xu, M Wang, YH Zhang, YA Litvinov… - Physical Review Letters, 2011 - APS
Mass excesses of short-lived A= 2 Z-1 nuclei Ge 63, As 65, Se 67, and Kr 71 have been
directly measured to be-46 921 (37),-46 937 (85),-46 580 (67), and-46 320 (141) keV …

Ultracold heteronuclear fermi-fermi molecules

AC Voigt, M Taglieber, L Costa, T Aoki, W Wieser… - Physical review …, 2009 - APS
We report on the first creation of ultracold bosonic heteronuclear molecules of two fermionic
species, Li 6 and K 40, by a magnetic field sweep across an interspecies s-wave Feshbach …

Nucleosynthesis in type I X-ray bursts

A Parikh, J José, G Sala, C Iliadis - Progress in Particle and Nuclear …, 2013 - Elsevier
Type I X-ray bursts are thermonuclear explosions that occur in the envelopes of accreting
neutron stars. Detailed observations of these phenomena have prompted numerous studies …