Luis Sarmiento Pico

Investigation of the ²⁴⁴Pu(⁴⁸Ca,xn)^292-xFl reaction with the LBNL SHREC detector: Investigation of decay chains of isotopes of flerovium (Z = 114)

J. M. Gates, R. Orford, D. Rudolph, A. T. Chemey, Roderick M. Clark, et al.
(2026) Physical Review C, 113
Article

Constellation : The autonomous control and data acquisition system for dynamic experimental setups

Simon Spannagel, Stephan Lachnit, Hanno Perrey, Justus Braach, Lene Kristian Bryngemark, et al.
(2026) Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, 1085
Article

Sensitivity of an early dark matter search using the electromagnetic calorimeter as a target for the Light Dark Matter eXperiment

T. Åkesson, L.K. Bryngemark, E. Elén, H. Herde, L.S. Pico, et al.
(2025) Journal of High Energy Physics, 2025
Article

Rotational bands in ²⁴⁹Md

C. J. Appleton, R. M. Clark, C. Morse, D. Seweryniak, M. Armstrong, et al.
(2025) Physical Review C, 112
Article

Identification of Prompt Proton Emission in N = Z - 1 ⁶¹Ga: Isospin Symmetry at the Limit of Nuclear Binding

Y. Hrabar, P. Golubev, D. Rudolph, L. G. Sarmiento, C. Müller-Gatermann, et al.
(2025) Physical Review Letters, 135
Article

Multi-coincidence set-up for nuclear forensics with Si-strip and Compton-suppressed HPGe detectors

Yuliia Hrabar, Pavel Golubev, Solveig Englund, Dirk Rudolph, Luis Sarmiento Pico, et al.
(2025) Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, 291
Article

Results of a Geant4 benchmarking study for bio-medical applications, performed with the G4-Med system

Pedro Arce, Dennis H. Wright, Luis G. Sarmiento
(2025) Medical Physics, 52 p.2707-2761
Article

Approaching ¹⁰⁰Sn : Structural evolution in ^98,100Cd via lifetime measurements

G. Zhang, A. Zyriliou, D. Cox, Y. Hrabar, L. G. Sarmiento
(2025) Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics, 863
Article

Deuteron evaporation from N = Z compound nuclei

Y. Hrabar, P. Golubev, A. Idini, L. G. Sarmiento, B. G. Carlsson, et al.
(2025) Physical Review C, 111
Article

Novel Tools for In-beam Proton–gamma Coincidence Spectroscopy Near N=Z

Yuliia Hrabar, Pavel Golubev, Dirk Rudolph, Luis Sarmiento Pico, C. Müller-Gatermann, et al.
(2025) Acta Physica Polonica B, Proceedings Supplement, 18
Article

Source characterization of a detector for heavy and superheavy nuclei

Pavel Golubev, R. Orford, F. H. Garcia, Dirk Rudolph, Luis Sarmiento Pico, et al.
(2025) Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research. Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors, and Associated Equipment, 1075
Article

Manifestation of relativistic effects in the chemical properties of nihonium and moscovium revealed by gas chromatography studies

A. Yakushev, J. Khuyagbaatar, Ch. E. Düllmann, M. Block, R. A. Cantemir, et al.
(2024) Frontiers in Chemistry, 12
Article

Toward the Discovery of New Elements: Production of Livermorium (Z=116) with ⁵⁰Ti

J. M. Gates, R. Orford, D. Rudolph, C. Appleton, B. M. Barrios, et al.
(2024) Physical Review Letters, 133
Article

Search for Weak Side Branches in the Electromagnetic Decay Paths of the 6526-keV 10⁺ Isomer in ⁵⁴Fe

Paul Böhm, Yuliia Hrabar, Dirk Rudolph, Pavel Golubev, Luis Sarmiento Pico, et al.
(2023) Atoms, 11
Article

Spectroscopy along flerovium decay chains. III. Details on experiment, analysis, ²⁸²Cn, and spontaneous fission branches

A. Såmark-Roth, D. M. Cox, D. Rudolph, L. G. Sarmiento, M. Albertsson, et al.
(2023) Physical Review C, 107
Article

Spectroscopy along flerovium decay chains. II. Fine structure in odd-A ²⁸⁹Fl

D. M. Cox, A. Såmark-Roth, D. Rudolph, L. G. Sarmiento, R. M. Clark, et al.
(2023) Physical Review C, 107
Article

Anti-Compton shield for Compex germanium detector modules

Yuliia Hrabar, Luis Sarmiento Pico, Pavel Golubev, O. Bobovnikov, Daniel Cox, et al.
(2023) Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research. Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors, and Associated Equipment, 1056
Article

Photon-rejection power of the Light Dark Matter eXperiment in an 8 GeV beam

Torsten Åkesson, Cameron Bravo, Liam Brennan, Lene Kristian Bryngemark, Pierfrancesco Butti, et al.
(2023) Journal of High Energy Physics, 2023
Article

Elucidating the nature of the proton radioactivity and branching ratio on the first proton emitter discovered ^53mCo

Luis Sarmiento Pico, Thomas Roger, J Giovinazzo, B. Alex Brown, Blank Blank, et al.
(2023) Nature Communications, 14
Article

Decay studies in the A ∼ 225 Po-Fr region from the DESPEC campaign at GSI in 2021

M. Polettini, D.M. Cox, Y. Hrabar, L.G. Sarmiento, A. Zyriliou
(2022) Il Nuovo Cimento C: colloquia and communications in physics, 45
Article

On the adsorption and reactivity of element 114, flerovium

A. Yakushev, L. Lens, Ch.E. Düllmann, J. Khuyagbaatar, E. Jäger, et al.
(2022) Frontiers in Chemistry, 10
Article

Spectroscopy of ⁹⁸Cd by two-nucleon removal from ¹⁰⁰In

S. Y. Jin, S. T. Wang, J. Lee, A. Corsi, K. Wimmer, et al.
(2021) Physical Review C: covering nuclear physics, 104
Article

Spectroscopy along flerovium decay chains: Discovery of ²⁸⁰Ds and an excited state in ²⁸²Cn

Anton Såmark-Roth, Daniel Cox, Dirk Rudolph, Luis Sarmiento Pico, Gillis Carlsson, et al.
(2021) Physical Review Letters, 126
Article

Report on G4-Med, a Geant4 benchmarking system for medical physics applications developed by the Geant4 Medical Simulation Benchmarking Group

P. Arce, D. Bolst, M. C. Bordage, J. M.C. Brown, P. Cirrone, et al.
(2021) Medical Physics, 48 p.19-56
Article

First Study on Nihonium (Nh, Element 113) Chemistry at TASCA

A. Yakushev, L. Lens, Ch. E. Düllmann, M. Block, H. Brand, et al.
(2021) Frontiers in Chemistry, 9
Article

Reinterpretation of excited states in ²¹²Po: Shell-model multiplets rather than α-cluster states

A. Fernández, A. Jungclaus, P. Golubev, D. Rudolph, L. G. Sarmiento, et al.
(2021) Physical Review C, 104
Article

Flerovium spectroscopy – benchmarking nuclear theory at proton number Z = 114

Anton Såmark-Roth, Daniel Cox, Dirk Rudolph, Luis Sarmiento Pico
(2020) NUSTAR Newsletters, 2020
Report

Spectroscopic Tools Applied to Flerovium Decay Chains

D. M. Cox, A. Såmark-Roth, D. Rudolph, L.G. Sarmiento, C. Fahlander, et al.
(2020) Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 1643
Article

Compex: a cubic germanium detector

A. Såmark-Roth, D. M. Cox, J. Eberth, P. Golubev, D. Rudolph, et al.
(2020) European Physical Journal A. Hadrons and Nuclei, 56
Article

Benchmarking the PreSPEC@GSI experiment for Coulex-multipolarimetry on the π(p_3/2) → π(p_1/2) spin-flip transition in ⁸⁵Br

P. Napiralla, C. Fahlander, P. Golubev, N. Lalović, D. Rudolph, et al.
(2020) European Physical Journal A. Hadrons and Nuclei, 56
Article

Low-lying electric dipole γ-continuum for the unstable ^62,64Fe nuclei: Strength evolution with neutron number

R. Avigo, O. Wieland, A. Bracco, F. Camera, F. Ameil, et al.
(2020) Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics, 811
Article

Search for elements 119 and 120

J. Khuyagbaatar, A. Yakushev, Ch. E. Düllmann, D. Ackermann, L.-L. Andersson, et al.
(2020) Physical Review C, 102
Article

β Decay of ¹²⁷Cd and Excited States in ¹²⁷In

Ch Lorenz, L. G. Sarmiento, D. Rudolph, P. Golubev, T. Eronen, et al.
(2019) Physical Review C, 99
Article

Fusion reaction ⁴⁸Ca + ²⁴⁹Bk leading to formation of the element Ts (Z=117)

J. Khuyagbaatar, A. Yakushev, Ch E. Düllmann, D. Ackermann, L. L. Andersson, et al.
(2019) Physical Review C, 99
Article

Isospin dependence of electromagnetic transition strengths among an isobaric triplet

A. Boso, S. A. Milne, M. A. Bentley, F. Recchia, S. M. Lenzi, et al.
(2019) Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics, 797
Article

Study of isomeric states in ^{198,200,202,206}Pb and ²⁰⁶Hg populated in fragmentation reactions

Nataša Lalović, Dirk Rudolph, Zsolt Podolyák, Luis Sarmiento Pico, E.C. Simpson, et al.
(2018) Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics, 45
Article

Study of Non-fusion Products in the ⁵⁰Ti+²⁴⁹Cf Reaction

A. Di Nitto, J. Khuyagbaatar, D. Ackermann, L. L. Andersson, E. Badura, et al.
(2018) Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics, 784 p.199-205
Article

Low-lying states in ²¹⁹Ra and ²¹⁵Rn : Sampling microsecond α-decaying nuclei

A. Såmark-Roth, L. G. Sarmiento, D. Rudolph, J. Ljungberg, B. G. Carlsson, et al.
(2018) Physical Review C, 98
Article

Identification of Reaction Products in ⁵⁰Ti+²⁴⁹Cf Reactions at TASCA

A. Di Nitto, J. Khuyagbaatar, D. Ackermann, J. Adamczewski-Musch, Lise-Lotte Andersson, et al.
(2017) GSI Scientific Report, 2017-1 p.203-203
Book chapter

Recent upgrades of the SHIPTRAP setup : On the finish line towards direct mass spectroscopy of superheavy elements

F. Giacoppo, K. Blaum, M Block, Meen Poudyal Chhetri, Ch. E. Düllmann, et al.
(2017) Acta Physica Polonica B, 48 p.423-429
Article

Lifetime measurement of neutron-rich even-even molybdenum isotopes

D. Ralet, S. Pietri, T. Rodríguez, M. Alaqeel, T. Alexander, et al.
(2017) Physical Review C: covering nuclear physics, 95
Article

Geant4-aided Quantum State Selective Decay Spectroscopy of ²¹³Ra

Ch. Lorenz, Luis Sarmiento, Dirk Rudolph, M Block
(2017) PoS - Proceedings of Science, (INPC2016)
Paper in conference proceeding

High-precision mass measurements for the isobaric multiplet mass equation at A = 52

D. A. Nesterenko, A. Kankainen, L. Canete, M Block, D. M. Cox, et al.
(2017) Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics, 44
Article

Quantum-state-selective decay spectroscopy of ²¹³Ra

Ch Lorenz, L. G. Sarmiento, D. Rudolph, D. E. Ward, M Block, et al.
(2017) Physical Review C, 96
Article

Nuclear spectroscopy with Geant4: Proton and neutron emission & radioactivity

Luis Sarmiento, Dirk Rudolph
(2016) Latin American Symposium on Nuclear Physics and Applications, 1753
Paper in conference proceeding

Recoil-α-fission and recoil-α-α-fission events observed in the reaction ⁴⁸Ca + ²⁴³Am

U. Forsberg, D. Rudolph, L. L. Andersson, A. Di Nitto, Ch E. Düllmann, et al.
(2016) Nuclear Physics, Section A, 953 p.117-138
Article

Superheavy-element spectroscopy: Correlations along element 115 decay chains

Dirk Rudolph, Ulrika Forsberg, Luis Sarmiento, Pavel Golubev, Claes Fahlander
(2016) 12th International Conference on Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions (NN 2015): EPJ Web of Conferences, 117 p.1-12
Paper in conference proceeding

Nuclear spectroscopy with GEANT4 : The superheavy challenge

Luis G. Sarmiento
(2016) Nobel Symposium NS 160 - Chemistry and Physics of Heavy and Superheavy Elements, 131
Paper in conference proceeding

Role of the Δ Resonance in the Population of a Four-Nucleon State in the 56Fe → 54Fe Reaction at Relativistic Energies

Zs Podolyák, C. M. Shand, Natasa Lalovic, J. Gerl, D. Rudolph, et al.
(2016) Physical Review Letters, 117
Article

Fission in the landscape of heaviest elements: Some recent examples

J. Khuyagbaatar, A. Yakushev, Ch.E. Düllmann, D. Ackermann, L.-L. Andersson, et al.
(2016) EPJ Web of Conferences, 131
Paper in conference proceeding

A new assessment of the alleged link between element 115 and element 117 decay chains

U. Forsberg, D. Rudolph, C. Fahlander, P. Golubev, L.G. Sarmiento, et al.
(2016) Physics Letters. Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics, 760 p.293-296
Article

Chemical Study of Fl, Cn, their Lighter Homologs and Rn at TASCA

A. Yakushev, L. Lens, C. E. Düllmann, D. Ackermann, M. Asai, et al.
(2015) GSI Report, 2015-1 p.179
Book chapter

Evolution of Collectivity in the Vicinity of 208Pb: Preliminary Results

M. L. Cortes, T. Alexander, Luis Sarmiento, M. Reese, Dirk Rudolph, et al.
(2015) GSI Report, 2015-1 p.153
Book chapter

Decay Spectroscopy of Element 115 Daughters: 280Rg -> 276Mt and 276Mt -> 272Bh

J. M. Gates, K. E. Gregorich, O. R. Gothe, E. C. Uribe, G. K. Pang, et al.
(2015) Physical Review C (Nuclear Physics), 92
Article

Selected Spectroscopic Results on Element 115 Decay Chains

Dirk Rudolph, Ulrika Forsberg, Pavel Golubev, Luis Sarmiento, A. Yakushev, et al.
(2015) Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry, 303 p.1185-1190
Article

Isomeric Ratios in 206Hg

T. Alexander, Zs. Podolyak, M. L. Cortes, J. Gerl, Dirk Rudolph, et al.
(2015) Acta Physica Polonica. Series B: Elementary Particle Physics, Nuclear Physics, Statistical Physics, Theory of Relativity, Field Theory, 46 p.601-605
Article

New Short-Lived Isotope 221U and the Mass Surface Near N=126

J. Khuyagbaatar, A. Yakushev, Ch. E. Düllmann, D. Ackermann, L.-L. Andersson, et al.
(2015) Physical Review Letters, 115
Article

Nuclear Structure Notes on Element 115 Decay Chains

Dirk Rudolph, Luis Sarmiento, Ulrika Forsberg
(2015) AIP Conference Proceedings, 1681
Paper in conference proceeding

Recoil-alpha-fission and Recoil-alpha-alpha-fission Chains Stemming from Element 115

Dirk Rudolph, Ulrika Forsberg, C. E. Düllmann, Pavel Golubev, F.P. Heßberger, et al.
(2015) GSI Report, 2015-1 p.180
Book chapter

Element 115 Studied with TASISpec

Dirk Rudolph, Ulrika Forsberg, Pavel Golubev, Luis Sarmiento, A. Yakushev, et al.
(2014) GSI Report, 2014-1 p.126
Book chapter

Alpha-Photon Coincidence Spectroscopy Along Element 115 Decay Chains

Dirk Rudolph, Ulrika Forsberg, Pavel Golubev, Luis Sarmiento, A. Yakushev, et al.
(2014) Acta Physica Polonica. Series B: Elementary Particle Physics, Nuclear Physics, Statistical Physics, Theory of Relativity, Field Theory, 45 p.263-272
Article

Study of the 48Ca + 249Bk Fusion Reaction Leading to Element Z = 117: Long-lived Alpha-decaying 270Db and Discovery of 266Lr

J. Khuyagbaatar, A. Yakushev, C. E. Düllmann, D. Ackermann, L.-L. Andersson, et al.
(2014) GSI Report, 2014-1 p.125-125
Book chapter

Luis Sarmiento Pico

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