Time-of-Flight Mass Measurements of Neutron Rich Nuclides
ORAL
Abstract
Nuclear masses of neutron rich isotopes in the region of Z $\sim$ 20-30 have been measured using the time-of-flight technique at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL). The masses of 5 isotopes have been measured for the first time, and the precision of several other masses has been improved. The time-of-flight technique has shown the potential to access nuclear masses very far from stability when applied at radioactive beam facilities like the NSCL. Such measurements are important for understanding nuclear structure far from the valley of $\beta$-stability, and provide valuable information for astrophysical model calculations of processes involving very unstable nuclides.
*This work is supported by NSF grants PHY02-16783 and PHY-06-06007.
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