Mass measurements of neutron-rich Rh isotopes using the Canadian Penning Trap

ORAL

Abstract

The Canadian Penning Trap (CPT) has been at the Argonne National Laboratory's CARIBU facility for over a decade, where it measured the masses of over 300 nuclei produced from the spontaneous fission of CARIBU’s 252Cf source. The current phase-imaging ion-cyclotron-resonance technique adopted by the CPT provides a typical precision of 1-10 keV/c2. With such precision, not only atomic masses can be measured to high precision, but also the energy difference between the nuclear ground state and certain nuclear isomer. Recently, a series of mass measurement campaigns were carried out using the CPT to measure the masses of importance for understanding the astrophysical rapid neutron capture process (r process), to improve precision on certain nuclear masses which largely depend on beta end point measurements, or to probe the ground state and the isomer(s) mass for the purpose of nuclear structure or nuclear astrophysics study. These measurements include neutron-rich odd-odd 108,110,112,114,116Rh isotopes, which were known to present long-lived isomeric states (of unknown energy) based on lifetime measurements. We will present the most precise measurements to date, done at sufficient precision to resolve some of the isomers for the first time as well as unveil possible unknown isomers.

*This work is supported in part by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Nuclear Physics, under Contract No. DE-AC02-06CH11357; by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. PHY-2011890; by NSERC (Canada), Application No. SAPPJ-2018-00028; by the University of Notre Dame; and with resources of Argonne National Laboratory's ATLAS facility, an Office of Science User Facility.

Presenters

  • Biying Liu

    • University of Notre Dame

Authors

  • Biying Liu

    • University of Notre Dame
  • Maxime Brodeur

    • University of Notre Dame
  • Daniel P Burdette

    • University of Notre Dame
    • Argonne National Laboratory
  • Nathan Callahan

    • Argonne National Laboratory
  • Jason A Clark

    • Argonne National Laboratory
    • Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois 60439, USA
  • Daniel E Hoff

    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
    • University of Massachusetts Lowell
  • Kay Kolos

    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
    • LLNL
  • Graeme Morgan

    • Louisiana State University
  • Rodney Orford

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
    • LBNL
  • William S Porter

    • University of Notre Dame
  • Dwaipayan Ray

    • University of Manitoba
    • U. Manitoba
  • Fabio Rivero

    • University of Notre Dame
  • Guy Savard

    • Argonne National Laboratory
  • Kumar S Sharma

    • University of Manitoba
    • U. Manitoba
  • Adrian A Valverde

    • Argonne National Laboratory/University of Manitoba
    • University of Manitoba
  • Louis Varriano

    • University of Chicago