Recent upgrades of the SHIPTRAP setup: On the finish line towards direct mass spectroscopy of superheavy elements

F. Giacoppo, K. Blaum, M Block, Meen Poudyal Chhetri, Ch. E. Düllmann, C. Droese, S. Eliseev, P. Filianin, Sebastian Götz, Y. Gusev, F. Herfurth, F. P. Hessberger, O. Kaleja, J. Khuyagbaatar, M. Laatiaoui, F. Lautenschläger, C. Lorenz, G. Marx, E. Minaya Ramirez, A. K. MistryYu. N. Novikov, W. R. Plass, S. Raeder, D. Rodríguez, D. Rudolph, L. G. Sarmiento, C Scheidenberger, L. Schweikhard, P. Thirolf, A. Yakushev

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    Abstract

    With the Penning-trap mass spectrometer SHIPTRAP at GSI, Darmstadt, it is possible to investigate exotic nuclei in the region of the heaviest elements. Few years ago, challenging experiments led to the direct measurements of the masses of neutron-deficient isotopes with Z = 102; 103 around N = 152. Thanks to recent advances in cooling and ion-manipulation techniques, a major technical upgrade of the setup has been recently accomplished to boost its efficiency. At present, the gap to reach more rare and shorter-lived species at the limits of the nuclear landscape has been narrowed.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)423-429
    Number of pages7
    JournalActa Physica Polonica B
    Volume48
    Issue number3
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2017 Mar 1

    Subject classification (UKÄ)

    • Accelerator Physics and Instrumentation

    Free keywords

    • Penning trap

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