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.
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Presenters
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Biying Liu
- University of Notre Dame