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The Canadian Penning trap (CPT) mass spectrometer at the Argonne National Laboratory makes precise mass measurements of nuclides with short half-lives. Since the previous ENAM conference, many significant modifications to the apparatus were implemented to improve both the precision and efficiency of measurement, and now more than 60 radioactive isotopes have been measured with half-lives as short as one second and with a precision (Δm/m) approaching 10−8. The CPT mass measurement program has concentrated so far on nuclides of importance to astrophysics. In particular, measurements have been obtained of isotopes along the rp-process path, in which energy is released from a series of rapid proton-capture reactions. An X-ray burst is one possible site for the rp-process mechanism which involves the accretion of hydrogen and helium from one star onto the surface of its neutron star binary companion. Mass measurements are required as key inputs to network calculations used to describe the rp-process in terms of the abundances of the nuclides produced, the light-curve profile of the X-ray bursts, and the energy produced. This paper will present the precise mass measurements made along the rp-process path with particular emphasis on the “waiting-point” nuclides 68Se and 64Ge.
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Clark, J.A. et al. (2005). Investigating the rp-process with the Canadian Penning trap mass spectrometer. In: Gross, C.J., Nazarewicz, W., Rykaczewski, K.P. (eds) The 4th International Conference on Exotic Nuclei and Atomic Masses. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-37642-9_177
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