Nuclear fission: a review of experimental advances and phenomenology

AN Andreyev, K Nishio… - Reports on Progress in …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
In the last two decades, through technological, experimental and theoretical advances, the
situation in experimental fission studies has changed dramatically. With the use of advanced …

Recent progress in laser spectroscopy of the actinides

M Block, M Laatiaoui, S Raeder - Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 2021 - Elsevier
The interest to perform laser spectroscopy in the heaviest elements arises from the strong
impact of relativistic effects, electron correlations and quantum electrodynamics on their …

Masses of exotic calcium isotopes pin down nuclear forces

F Wienholtz, D Beck, K Blaum, C Borgmann… - Nature, 2013 - nature.com
The properties of exotic nuclei on the verge of existence play a fundamental part in our
understanding of nuclear interactions. Exceedingly neutron-rich nuclei become sensitive to …

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 …

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 …

Binding Energy of : Probing the Structure of the Doubly Magic from Only One Proton Away

A Welker, NAS Althubiti, D Atanasov, K Blaum… - Physical review …, 2017 - APS
The masses of the neutron-rich copper isotopes Cu 75–79 are determined using the
precision mass spectrometer ISOLTRAP at the CERN-ISOLDE facility. The trend from the …

Plumbing Neutron Stars to New Depths with the Binding Energy of the Exotic Nuclide

RN Wolf, D Beck, K Blaum, C Böhm, C Borgmann… - Physical review …, 2013 - APS
Modeling the composition of neutron-star crusts depends strongly on binding energies of
neutron-rich nuclides near the N= 50 and N= 82 shell closures. Using a recent development …

Isomer Shift and Magnetic Moment of the Long-Lived Isomer in : Signature of Shape Coexistence near

XF Yang, C Wraith, L **e, C Babcock, J Billowes… - Physical review …, 2016 - APS
Collinear laser spectroscopy is performed on the Zn 49 30 79 isotope at ISOLDE-CERN. The
existence of a long-lived isomer with a few hundred milliseconds half-life is confirmed, and …

First Glimpse of the Shell Closure below from Masses of Neutron-Rich Cadmium Isotopes and Isomers

V Manea, J Karthein, D Atanasov, M Bender, K Blaum… - Physical review …, 2020 - APS
We probe the N= 82 nuclear shell closure by mass measurements of neutron-rich cadmium
isotopes with the ISOLTRAP spectrometer at ISOLDE-CERN. The new mass of Cd 132 offers …

Measurement of the first ionization potential of astatine by laser ionization spectroscopy

S Rothe, AN Andreyev, S Antalic, A Borschevsky… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
The radioactive element astatine exists only in trace amounts in nature. Its properties can
therefore only be explored by study of the minute quantities of artificially produced isotopes …