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A new experimental approach for isochronous mass measurements of short-lived exotic nuclei with the FRS-ESR facility

  • H. Geissel*
  • , R. Knöbel
  • , Yu A. Litvinov
  • , B. Sun
  • , K. Beckert
  • , P. Beller
  • , F. Bosch
  • , D. Boutin
  • , C. Brandau
  • , L. Chen
  • , B. Fabian
  • , M. Hausmann
  • , C. Kozhuharov
  • , J. Kurcewicz
  • , S. A. Litvinov
  • , M. Mazzocco
  • , F. Montes
  • , G. Münzenberg
  • , A. Musumarra
  • , C. Nociforo
  • F. Nolden, W. R. Plaß, C. Scheidenberger, M. Steck, H. Weick, M. Winkler
*Corresponding author for this work
  • GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research
  • Justus Liebig University Giessen
  • Peking University
  • Michigan State University
  • National Institute for Nuclear Physics

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Abstract

Projectile fragments separated in flight with the FRS have been injected into the storage ring ESR. Operating the ESR in the isochronous mode has enabled high-resolution mass measurements of short-lived isotopes. Already in our pilot experiments the Isochronous Mass Spectrometry (IMS) has provided accurate results for a restricted isotope range in the neighborhood of a selected isotope characterized by the best isochronous condition. In the present experiment this restriction has been overcome by precise external magnetic rigidity determination (1.5•10-4) at the dispersive midplane of the FRS. In this way the mass resolving power for neutron-rich fission fragments covering a large mass-over-charge ratio in one spectrum has been improved by up to one order of magnitude and the accuracy by more than a factor of two.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)49-54
Number of pages6
JournalHyperfine Interactions
Volume173
Issue number1-3
DOIs
StatePublished - Nov 2006
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Isochronous mode
  • Masses
  • Stored fragments

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