Recent Activities at the Low-Energy Beam and Ion Trap Facility at NSCL

ORAL

Abstract

The Low-Energy Beam and Ion Trap (LEBIT) facility, for high precision Penning trap mass measurements, has been relocated and upgraded for the expansion of the thermalized beam program at NSCL. I will summarize the changes to the facility and will focus on recent atomic mass measurements of candidates for neutrinoless double-$\beta$ decay experiments including $^{82}$Se and $^{48}$Ca. I will also present the first results from the recent successful LEBIT commissioning experiment and will conclude by discussing the exciting future opportunities with the upgraded facility.

*This work was supported by Michigan State University, the National Science Foundation under Contract No. PHY-1102511, and the Office of Science US Dept of Energy under Grant 03ER-41268

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Authors

  • Scott Bustabad

    • Dept. of Physics and NSCL, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA

  • Georg Bollen

    • Dept. of Physics and NSCL, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA

  • Maxime Brodeur

    • Dept. of Physics, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA

  • David Lincoln

    • Dept. of Physics and NSCL, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA

  • Samuel Novario

    • National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory/Michigan State University
    • Dept. of Physics and NSCL, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA

  • Matthew Redshaw

    • NSCL and Dept. of Physics, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, MI 48859, USA

  • Ryan Ringle

    • NSCL, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA

  • Stefan Schwarz

    • NSCL
    • NSCL, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA

  • Adrian Valverde

    • Dept. of Physics and NSCL, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA