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Progress at the TITAN-EBIT

Abstract

Precision mass measurements of short-lived isotopes provide insight into a wide array of physics, including nuclear structure, nucleosynthesis, and tests of the Standard Model. The precision of Penning trap mass spectrometry (PTMS) measurements is limited by the lifetime of the isotopes of interest, but scales proportionally with their charge state q, making highly charged ions attractive for mass measurements of nuclides far from stability. TITAN, TRIUMF's Ion Trap(s) for Atomic and Nuclear science, is currently the only setup in the world coupling an EBIT to a rare isotope facility for the purpose of PTMS. Charge breeding ions for Penning trap mass spectrometry, however, entails specific set of challenges. To make use of its potential, efficiencies have to be high, breeding times have to be short and the ion energy spread has to be small. An overview of the TITAN facility and charge-breeding program is given, current and future developments are highlighted and some selected results are presented.

Authors

Klawitter R; Alanssari M; Chowdhury U; Chaudhuri A; López-Urrutia JRC; Ettenauer S; Gallant AT; Grossheim A; Gwinner G; Kwiatkowski AA

Volume

1640

Pagination

pp. 112-119

Publisher

AIP Publishing

Publication Date

January 9, 2015

DOI

10.1063/1.4905407

Conference proceedings

AIP Conference Proceedings

Issue

1

ISSN

0094-243X
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