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

Summary, in English

With the Penning-trap mass spectrometer SHIPTRAP at GSI, Darmstadt, it is possible to investigate exotic nuclei in the region of the heaviest elements. Few years ago, challenging experiments led to the direct measurements of the masses of neutron-deficient isotopes with Z = 102; 103 around N = 152. Thanks to recent advances in cooling and ion-manipulation techniques, a major technical upgrade of the setup has been recently accomplished to boost its efficiency. At present, the gap to reach more rare and shorter-lived species at the limits of the nuclear landscape has been narrowed.

• Author: F. Giacoppo; K. Blaum; M Block; Meen Poudyal Chhetri; Ch. E. Düllmann; C. Droese; S. Eliseev; P. Filianin; Sebastian Götz; Y. Gusev; F. Herfurth; F. P. Hessberger; O. Kaleja; J. Khuyagbaatar; M. Laatiaoui; F. Lautenschläger; C. Lorenz; G. Marx; E. Minaya Ramirez; A. K. Mistry; Yu. N. Novikov; W. R. Plass; S. Raeder; D. Rodríguez; D. Rudolph; L. G. Sarmiento; C Scheidenberger; L. Schweikhard; P. Thirolf; A. Yakushev
• Department/s: Nuclear physics
• Publishing year: 2017-03-01
• Language: English
• Pages: 423-429
• Publication/Series: Acta Physica Polonica B
• Volume: 48
• Issue: 3
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• Links: http://dx.doi.org/10.5506/APhysPolB.48.423
• Document type: Journal article
• Publisher: Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland
• Topic: Accelerator Physics and Instrumentation
• Keywords: Penning trap
• Status: Published
• Project: Nuclear Structure at the Limits: Isotope-selective Spectroscopy
• ISBN/ISSN/Other: ISSN: 0587-4254