ConferenceJournal of Physics Conference Series · April 25, 2022
Penning trap mass spectrometry is the tool of choice for mass measurements to test the Standard Model or lay the nuclear-physics foundation of neutrino physics due to the high precisions achievable. This precision can be further boosted by higher charge st ...
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ConferenceJournal of Physics Conference Series · January 1, 2022
The search for a dark photon holds considerable interest in the physics community. Such a force carrier would begin to illuminate the dark sector. Many experiments have searched for such a particle, but so far it has proven elusive. In recent years the con ...
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ConferenceJournal of Physics Conference Series · December 23, 2020
Multiple-reflection time-of-flight mass spectrometers (MR-TOF-MS) have been demonstrated to have a mass resolving power in the range of few hundreds of thousand. The TITAN MR-TOF-MS has been used to separate isobaric impurities and measure masses of many r ...
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ConferenceAip Conference Proceedings · September 21, 2018
CANREB (CANadian Rare isotope facility with Electron Beam ion source) at TRIUMF will deliver pure, highly charged, radioactive ion beams suitable for acceleration in order to perform experiments to investigate nuclear reactions. Radioactive isotopes at TRI ...
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ConferenceProceedings of Science · January 1, 2016
For modes of electroweak decay such as electron capture and internal conversion, the spatial distribution of the electron cloud of the atom plays a major role in the decay probability. By successively removing electrons from these systems the decay probabi ...
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ConferenceEPJ Web of Conferences · May 28, 2015
The TITAN facility at TRIUMF has recently initiated a program of performing decay spectroscopy measurements in an electron-beam ion-trap (EBIT). The unique environment of the EBIT provides backingfree storage of the radioactive ions, while guiding charged ...
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ConferenceAip Conference Proceedings · January 1, 2015
The TITAN facility at TRIUMF makes use of highly charged ions, charge-bred in an electron beam ion trap, to carry out accurate mass measurements on radioactive isotopes. We report on our progress to develop a cooler Penning trap, CPET, which aims at reduci ...
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ConferenceAip Conference Proceedings · January 1, 2015
Precision mass measurements of short-lived isotopes provide insight into a wide array of physics, including nuclear structure, nucleosynthesis, and tests of the Standard Model. The precision of Penning trap mass spectrometry (PTMS) measurements is limited ...
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ConferencePhysica Scripta · December 4, 2013
Ion charge breeding for Penning-trap mass spectrometry has been established as providing a precision increase that scales linearly with the charge state of the ion. Fast and efficient charge breeding is a precondition for the application of this approach t ...
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ConferencePhysica Scripta · December 4, 2013
At TRIUMF's Ion Trap for Atomic and Nuclear Science (TITAN), masses of short-lived nuclides are measured accurately and precisely using Penning trap mass spectrometry. The achievable precision is primarily limited by the radioactive lifetime of the nuclide ...
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ConferenceJournal of Physics Conference Series · January 1, 2012
Electron beam ion traps (EBITs) are a new tool for charge breeding of rare isotope beams. The ionization efficiency of a new high current EBIT recently built at the MPIK was investigated spectroscopically during its commissioning phase. ...
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ConferenceJournal of Physics Conference Series · January 1, 2011
The TITAN on-line ion trapping facility at TRIUMF is dedicated to precision experiments with short-lived radioactive isotopes, among them mass measurements. A new approach is to breed the ions into high charge states using an electron-beam ion trap. To cou ...
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ConferenceJournal of Physics Conference Series · January 1, 2011
At TRIUMF's ion trap for atomic and nuclear science (TITAN) a new experimental technique is being developed to measure electron-capture branching ratios of intermediate nuclei in double-β decays. The key feature of this novel technique is the use of an ope ...
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ConferenceJournal of Instrumentation · October 1, 2010
Experiments with reaccelerated beams are an essential component of the science program of existing and future rare isotope beam facilities. NSCL is currently constructing ReA3, a reaccelerator for rare isotopes that have been produced by projectile fragmen ...
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ConferenceReview of Scientific Instruments · March 16, 2010
NSCL is currently constructing the ReA3 reaccelerator, which will accelerate rare isotopes obtained from gas stopping of fast-fragment beams to energies of up to 3 MeV/u for uranium and higher for lighter ions. A high-current charge breeder, based on an el ...
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ConferenceAip Conference Proceedings · December 1, 2009
To extract the effective neutrino Majorana mass from an observed 0νββ decay, precise knowledge of the involved nuclear matrix element is required. This poses a challenge to nuclear structure models. In particular, calculations based on the proton-neutron Q ...
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ConferenceEpac 2008 Contributions to the Proceedings · January 1, 2008
TRIUMF, in collaboration with university partners, proposes to construct a megawatt-class electron linear accelerator [1](e-linac) as a driver for U() 8,f) with rates up to 1013-1014 fissions/sec, and for 9Be(γ,p ...
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ConferenceDigest of Technical Papers IEEE International Pulsed Power Conference · December 1, 2007
TRIUMF's Ion Trap for Atomic and Nuclear Science (TITAN) Radio Frequency Quadrupole (RFQ) Beam Cooler is a device cools and collects short-lived isotopes, with half-lives as short as 10 ms, created by an Isotope Separator and Accelerator (ISAC). An RF squa ...
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ConferenceHyperfine Interactions · January 1, 2006
We have determined the nuclear charge radius of 11Li by high-precision laser spectroscopy. The experiment was performed at the TRIUMF-ISAC facility where the 7Li-11Li isotope shift (IS) was measured in the 2s → 3s electroni ...
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ConferenceEuropean Physical Journal A · September 1, 2005
The TITAN facility for precision mass measurements of short-lived isotopes is currently being constructed at the ISAC radioactive beam facility at TRIUMF, Vancouver, Canada. Current status and developments in the project are reported. A new method for cool ...
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ConferenceEuropean Physical Journal A · September 1, 2005
The TITAN (Triumf's Ion Trap for Atomic and Nuclear science) Penning trap mass spectrometer will be located at ISAC/TRIUMF in Vancouver, Canada. It is designed for conducting high-precision mass measurements on radionuclides via the determination of the cy ...
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ConferenceEuropean Physical Journal A · September 1, 2005
Neutral atoms trapped with modern laser cooling techniques offer the promise of improving several broad classes of weak interaction experiments with radioactive isotopes. For nuclear β decay, demonstrated trap techniques include neutrino momentum measureme ...
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ConferenceHyperfine Interactions · December 1, 2003
First off-line tests at the ion trap facility SHIPTRAP took place. The facility is being set up to deliver very clean and cooled beams of singly-charged recoil ions (Rare Isotope Beam) produced at the SHIP (Separator for Heavy Ion Production) velocity filt ...
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ConferenceNuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms · May 1, 2003
One of the necessary experimental quantities required for the test of unitarity of the fundamental Cabbibo-Kobayashi-Maskawa (CKM) quark mixing matrix can be gained from nuclear beta decay. However, the short-lived beta-decaying nuclei have to be produced ...
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ConferenceNuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms · January 1, 2003
The ion trap facility SHIPTRAP is installed behind the separator for heavy ion reaction products (SHIP) at GSI, which is well known for the discovery of new super-heavy elements produced in cold fusion reactions. SHIPTRAP consists out of a gas cell for sto ...
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ConferenceHyperfine Interactions · January 1, 2001
SHIPTRAP will allow direct measurement of masses of transuranium nuclides. The method of choice is a Penning trap spectrometer coupled to the SHIP (Separator for Heavy Ion Products) facility at GSI, Darmstadt. In this paper the impact of the SHIPTRAP facil ...
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ConferenceHyperfine Interactions · January 1, 2001
The masses of the xenon isotopes with 114 ≤ A ≤ 123 were directly measured for the first time. The experiments were carried out at the Isoltrap triple trap spectrometer at the on-line mass separator Isolde/cern. A mass resolving power of the Penning trap s ...
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ConferenceHyperfine Interactions · January 1, 2001
Penning trap mass spectrometry has reached a state that allows its application to very short-lived nuclides available from various sources of radioactive beams. Mass values with outstanding accuracy are achieved even far from stability. This paper illustra ...
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ConferenceHyperfine Interactions · January 1, 2001
With the Penning trap mass spectrometer ISOLTRAP, close to 200 nuclides have already been investigated and their masses determined with a typical relative precision of δm/m = 10-7. Recently, ISOLTRAP's beam preparation system was replaced by an ...
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ConferenceHyperfine Interactions · January 1, 2001
Recently, the applicability of Penning trap mass spectrometry has been extended to nuclides with a half-life of less than one second. The mass of 33Ar (T1/2 = 174 ms) was measured using the ISOLTRAP spectrometer with an accuracy of 4. ...
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ConferenceHyperfine Interactions · January 1, 2001
HITRAP is a planned ion trap facility for capturing and cooling of highly charged ions produced at GSI in the heavy-ion complex of the UNILAC-SIS accelerators and the ESR storage ring. In this facility heavy highly charged ions up to uranium will be availa ...
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ConferenceHyperfine Interactions · January 1, 2001
The ion trap facility SHIPTRAP is being set up to deliver very clean and cool beams of singly-charged recoil ions produced at the SHIP velocity filter at GSI Darmstadt. SHIPTRAP consists of a gas cell for stopping and thermalizing high-energy recoil ions f ...
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ConferenceHyperfine Interactions · January 1, 2001
An ion catcher as presented in this contribution is able to create cooled and very clean singly-charged ion pulses out of a 'hot' beam within a very short period of time. Precision measurements on shortlived radioactive nuclides become possible. This contr ...
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ConferenceHyperfine Interactions · January 1, 2001
The recent implementation of gas-filled radiofrequency traps for efficient ion beam bunching extended the applicability of the Penning trap mass spectrometer ISOLTRAP/CERN to non-surface ionizable species. In a first series of successful runs the masses of ...
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ConferenceHyperfine Interactions · December 1, 2000
SHIPTRAP is an ion trap facility which is being set up to deliver very clean and cool beams of singly-charged recoil ions produced at the SHIP velocity filter at GSI Darmstadt. SHIPTRAP consists of a gas cell for stopping and thermalizing high-energy recoi ...
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ConferenceHyperfine Interactions · December 1, 2000
Laser trapping and cooling techniques are now being applied to the study of nuclear β-decay at several labs. A magneto-optical trap (MOT) provides a localized source of atoms suspended in space, so the low-energy recoiling nuclei can freely escape and be d ...
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