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Charge breeding rare isotopes for high precision mass measurements: Challenges and opportunities

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Simon, MC; MacDonald, TD; Bale, JC; Chowdhury, U; Eberhardt, B; Eibach, M; Gallant, AT; Jang, F; Lennarz, A; Luichtl, M; Ma, T; Robertson, D ...
Published in: Physica 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 to rare isotopes. However, in view of low yields and short half-lives the precision boost is partly compromised by unavoidable ion losses inherent to the charge breeding process. The mass spectrometer TRIUMFs ion trap for atomic and nuclear science is pioneering this field by coupling a Penning trap and an electron beam ion trap to the rare-isotope beam facility ISAC at TRIUMF. Here we present simulations that calculate and maximize the effective precision gain of time-of-flight ion-cyclotron-resonance measurements with highly charged ions of short-lived nuclides. In addition we compare the characteristics of measurements with singly and highly charged ions, and we summarize recent results that explored benefits of charge breeding that go beyond the precision increase. © 2013 The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

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Physica Scripta

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0281-1847

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December 4, 2013

Volume

T156

Related Subject Headings

  • General Physics
  • 51 Physical sciences
  • 49 Mathematical sciences
  • 02 Physical Sciences
  • 01 Mathematical Sciences
 

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Simon, M. C., MacDonald, T. D., Bale, J. C., Chowdhury, U., Eberhardt, B., Eibach, M., … Dilling, J. (2013). Charge breeding rare isotopes for high precision mass measurements: Challenges and opportunities. In Physica Scripta (Vol. T156). https://doi.org/10.1088/0031-8949/2013/T156/014098
Simon, M. C., T. D. MacDonald, J. C. Bale, U. Chowdhury, B. Eberhardt, M. Eibach, A. T. Gallant, et al. “Charge breeding rare isotopes for high precision mass measurements: Challenges and opportunities.” In Physica Scripta, Vol. T156, 2013. https://doi.org/10.1088/0031-8949/2013/T156/014098.
Simon MC, MacDonald TD, Bale JC, Chowdhury U, Eberhardt B, Eibach M, et al. Charge breeding rare isotopes for high precision mass measurements: Challenges and opportunities. In: Physica Scripta. 2013.
Simon, M. C., et al. “Charge breeding rare isotopes for high precision mass measurements: Challenges and opportunities.” Physica Scripta, vol. T156, 2013. Scopus, doi:10.1088/0031-8949/2013/T156/014098.
Simon MC, MacDonald TD, Bale JC, Chowdhury U, Eberhardt B, Eibach M, Gallant AT, Jang F, Lennarz A, Luichtl M, Ma T, Robertson D, Simon VV, Andreoiu C, Brodeur M, Brunner T, Chaudhuri A, Crespo López-Urrutia JR, Delheij P, Ettenauer S, Frekers D, Grossheim A, Gwinner G, Kwiatkowski AA, Lapierre A, Mané E, Pearson MR, Ringle R, Schultz BE, Dilling J. Charge breeding rare isotopes for high precision mass measurements: Challenges and opportunities. Physica Scripta. 2013.

Published In

Physica Scripta

DOI

ISSN

0281-1847

Publication Date

December 4, 2013

Volume

T156

Related Subject Headings

  • General Physics
  • 51 Physical sciences
  • 49 Mathematical sciences
  • 02 Physical Sciences
  • 01 Mathematical Sciences