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Living Reference Work Entry In depth
Reactions for Production of Exotic Nuclei
An overview of the nuclear reactions that are used to produce exotic nuclei along with the relevant theoretical models and predictions of their cross sections will be presented in this chapter. The chapter con...
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Living Reference Work Entry In depth
Exotic Nuclei and Their Separation, Using Atomic Interactions
The discovery of short-lived, exotic nuclei has opened new horizons in subatomic physics and allowed many novel applications in other fields, e.g., the understanding of the evolution of matter and production o...
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Reference Work Entry In depth
Exotic Nuclei and Their Separation, Using Atomic Interactions
The discovery of short-lived, exotic nuclei has opened new horizons in subatomic physics and allowed many novel applications in other fields, e.g., the understanding of the evolution of matter and production o...
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Reference Work Entry In depth
Reactions for Production of Exotic Nuclei
An overview of the nuclear reactions that are used to produce exotic nuclei along with the relevant theoretical models and predictions of their cross sections will be presented in this chapter. The chapter con...
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Living Reference Work Entry In depth
Exotic Nuclei and Their Separation, Electromagnetic Devices
The discovery of short-lived, exotic nuclei has opened new horizons in subatomic physics and allowed many novel applications in other fields, e.g., the understanding of the evolution of matter and production o...
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Reference Work Entry In depth
Exotic Nuclei and Their Separation, Electromagnetic Devices
The discovery of short-lived, exotic nuclei has opened new horizons in subatomic physics and allowed many novel applications in other fields, e.g., the understanding of the evolution of matter and production o...
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Article
Fission fragment yields from heavy-ion-induced reactions measured with a fragment separator
The systematic study of fission fragment yields under different initial conditions has provided valuable experimental data for benchmarking models of fission product yields. Nuclear reactions using inverse kin...
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Article
Commissioning of the collinear laser spectroscopy facility BECOLA at NSCL/MSU
The BEam COoler and LAser spectroscopy (BECOLA) facility at National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory at Michigan State University has been commissioned online to determine charge radii and electromagnetic...
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Article
Technical developments for an upgrade of the LEBIT Penning trap mass spectrometry facility for rare isotopes
The LEBIT (Low Energy Beam and Ion Trap) facility is the only Penning trap mass spectrometry (PTMS) facility to utilize rare isotopes produced via fast-beam fragmentation. This technique allows access to pract...
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Article
High-precision Penning trap mass measurements of ‘difficult’ elements produced via projectile fragmentation with LEBIT
Rare isotope beams of many elements can be difficult or impossible to obtain at ISOL facilities due to their high melting points or chemical reactivity, but they are easily produced by projectile fragmentation...
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Article
Precision Penning trap mass measurements of rare isotopes produced by projectile fragmentation
The low-energy beam and ion trap facility LEBIT at NSCL/MSU is at present the only facility where precision experiments are performed with stopped rare isotope beams produced by fast-beam fragmentation. LEBIT ...
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Article
Extraction of thermalized projectile fragments from gas
The NSCL gas cell and quadrupole ion-guide system has been used to study the thermalization of fast nuclear reaction products in a buffer gas. The fraction of radioactive ions that can be extracted from the ga...
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Article
Efficient and fast thermalization of Rare Isotope Beam from projectile fragmentation
Gas stop** is the method of choice for converting rare isotope beams obtained via projectile fragmentation and in-flight separation into low-energy beams. Current gas stopper systems for high-energy beams ar...
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Article
Penning trap mass measurements of rare isotopes produced by projectile fragmentation with LEBIT at NSCL
The Low-Energy Beam and Ion Trap facility LEBIT at the NSCL at MSU has demonstrated that rare isotopes produced by fast-beam fragmentation can be slowed down and prepared for precision experiments with low-ene...
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Article
Discovery of 40Mg and 42Al suggests neutron drip-line slant towards heavier isotopes
The limit of how many neutrons can be bound by a given number of protons — called the neutron drip line — is of fundamental importance in nuclear physics. It is unknown for all but the lightest elements, becau...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
The cyclotron gas stopper project at the NSCL
Gas stop** is becoming the method of choice for converting beams of rare isotopes obtained via projectile fragmentation and in-flight separation into low-energy beams. These beams allow ISOL-type experiments...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
The LEBIT facility at MSU
The low-energy beam and ion trap facility LEBIT at the NSCL at MSU has demonstrated that rare isotopes produced by fast-beam fragmentation can be slowed down and prepared such that precision experiments with l...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Space charge effects on stopped projectile fragment drift in gas
The results from a particle-in-cell code developed to describe the drifting of ions in an ionized buffer gas are described. The rate of ionization was found to have a dramatic effect on the collection efficien...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Beam purification techniques for low energy rare isotope beams from a gas cell
A linear gas stop** cell has been implemented at the NSCL as part of the Low Energy Beam and Ion Trap (LEBIT) facility. The gas stop** cell is used to convert relativistic ions into low energy ions suitabl...
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Article
Space charge effects on stopped projectile fragment drift in gas
The results from a particle-in-cell code developed to describe the drifting of ions in an ionized buffer gas are described. The rate of ionization was found to have a dramatic effect on the collection efficien...