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New Test of Modulated Electron Capture Decay of Hydrogen-Like $^{142}$Pm Ions: Precision Measurement of Purely Exponential Decay
Authors:
F. C. Ozturk,
B. Akkus,
D. Atanasov,
H. Beyer,
F. Bosch,
D. Boutin,
C. Brandau,
P. Bühler,
R. B. Cakirli,
R. J. Chen,
W. D. Chen,
X. C. Chen,
I. Dillmann,
C. Dimopoulou,
W. Enders,
H. G. Essel,
T. Faestermann,
O. Forstner,
B. S. Gao,
H. Geissel,
R. Gernhäuser,
R. E. Grisenti,
A. Gumberidze,
S. Hagmann,
T. Heftrich
, et al. (70 additional authors not shown)
Abstract:
An experiment addressing electron capture (EC) decay of hydrogen-like $^{142}$Pm$^{60+}$ ions has been conducted at the experimental storage ring (ESR) at GSI. The decay appears to be purely exponential and no modulations were observed. Decay times for about 9000 individual EC decays have been measured by applying the single-ion decay spectroscopy method. Both visually and automatically analysed d…
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An experiment addressing electron capture (EC) decay of hydrogen-like $^{142}$Pm$^{60+}$ ions has been conducted at the experimental storage ring (ESR) at GSI. The decay appears to be purely exponential and no modulations were observed. Decay times for about 9000 individual EC decays have been measured by applying the single-ion decay spectroscopy method. Both visually and automatically analysed data can be described by a single exponential decay with decay constants of 0.0126(7) s$^{-1}$ for automatic analysis and 0.0141(7) s$^{-1}$ for manual analysis. If a modulation superimposed on the exponential decay curve is assumed, the best fit gives a modulation amplitude of merely 0.019(15), which is compatible with zero and by 4.9 standard deviations smaller than in the original observation which had an amplitude of 0.23(4).
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Submitted 9 August, 2019; v1 submitted 16 July, 2019;
originally announced July 2019.
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Direct mass measurements of Cd isotopes show strong shell gap at N=82
Authors:
R. Knöbel,
M. Diwisch,
F. Bosch,
D. Boutin,
L. Chen,
C. Dimopoulou,
A. Dolinskii,
B. Franczak,
B. Franzke,
H. Geissel,
M. Hausmann,
C. Kozhuharov,
J. Kurcewicz,
S. A. Litvinova,
G. Martínez-Pinedo,
M. Matoš,
M. Mazzocco,
G. Münzenberg,
S. Nakajima,
C. Nociforo,
F. Nolden,
T. Ohtsubo,
A. Ozawa,
Z. Patyk,
W. R. Plaß
, et al. (10 additional authors not shown)
Abstract:
A $^{238}$U projectile beam was used to create cadmium isotopes via abrasion-fission at 410 MeV/u in a beryllium target at the entrance of the in-flight separator FRS at GSI. The fission fragments were separated with the FRS and injected into the isochronous storage ring ESR for mass measurements. The Isochronous Mass Spectrometry (IMS) was performed under two different experimental conditions, wi…
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A $^{238}$U projectile beam was used to create cadmium isotopes via abrasion-fission at 410 MeV/u in a beryllium target at the entrance of the in-flight separator FRS at GSI. The fission fragments were separated with the FRS and injected into the isochronous storage ring ESR for mass measurements. The Isochronous Mass Spectrometry (IMS) was performed under two different experimental conditions, with and without B$ρ$-tagging at the dispersive central focal plane of the FRS. In the experiment with B$ρ$-tagging the magnetic rigidity of the injected fragments was determined by an accuracy of $2\times 10^{-4}$. A new method of data analysis, using a correlation matrix for the combined data set from both experiments, has provided mass values for 25 different isotopes for the first time. The high selectivity and sensitivity of the experiment and analysis has given access even to rare isotopes detected with a few atoms per week. In this letter we present for the $^{129,130,131}$Cd isotopes mass values directly measured for the first time. The Cd results clearly show a very pronounced shell effect at $N=82$ which is in agreement with the conclusion from $γ$-ray spectroscopy of $^{130}$Cd and confirms the assumptions of modern shell-model calculations.
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Submitted 16 July, 2015;
originally announced July 2015.
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High-resolution measurement of the time-modulated orbital electron capture and of the $β^+$ decay of hydrogen-like $^{142}$Pm$^{60+}$ ions
Authors:
The Two-Body-Weak-Decays Collaboration,
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P. Kienle,
F. Bosch,
P. Bühler,
T. Faestermann,
Yu. A. Litvinov,
M. S. Sanjari,
D. B. Shubina,
N. Winckler,
D. Atanasov,
H. Geissel,
V. Ivanova,
X. L. Yan,
D. Boutin,
C. Brandau,
I. Dillmann,
Ch. Dimopoulou,
R. Hess,
P. -M. Hillebrand,
T. Izumikawa,
R. Knöbel,
J. Kurcewicz,
N. Kuzminchuk,
M. Lestinsky
, et al. (24 additional authors not shown)
Abstract:
The periodic time modulations, found recently in the two-body orbital electron-capture (EC) decay of both, hydrogen-like $^{140}$Pr$^{58+}$ and $^{142}$Pm$^{60+}$ ions, with periods near to 7s and amplitudes of about 20%, were re-investigated for the case of $^{142}$Pm$^{60+}$ by using a 245 MHz resonator cavity with a much improved sensitivity and time resolution. We observed that the exponential…
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The periodic time modulations, found recently in the two-body orbital electron-capture (EC) decay of both, hydrogen-like $^{140}$Pr$^{58+}$ and $^{142}$Pm$^{60+}$ ions, with periods near to 7s and amplitudes of about 20%, were re-investigated for the case of $^{142}$Pm$^{60+}$ by using a 245 MHz resonator cavity with a much improved sensitivity and time resolution. We observed that the exponential EC decay is modulated with a period $T = 7.11(11)$s, in accordance with a modulation period $T = 7.12(11)$ s as obtained from simultaneous observations with a capacitive pick-up, employed also in the previous experiments. The modulation amplitudes amount to $a_R = 0.107(24)$ and $a_P = 0.134(27)$ for the 245 MHz resonator and the capacitive pick-up, respectively. These new results corroborate for both detectors {\it exactly} our previous findings of modulation periods near to 7s, though with {\it distinctly smaller} amplitudes. Also the three-body $β^+$ decays have been analyzed. For a supposed modulation period near to 7s we found an amplitude $a = 0.027(27)$, compatible with $a = 0$ and in agreement with the preliminary result $a = 0.030(30)$ of our previous experiment. These observations could point at weak interaction as origin of the observed 7s-modulation of the EC decay. Furthermore, the data suggest that interference terms occur in the two-body EC decay, although the neutrinos are not directly observed.
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Submitted 27 September, 2013;
originally announced September 2013.
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Direct observation of long-lived isomers in $^{212}$Bi
Authors:
L. Chen,
P. M. Walker,
H. Geissel,
Yu. A. Litvinov,
K. Beckert,
P. Beller,
F. Bosch,
D. Boutin,
L. Caceres,
J. J. Carroll,
D. M. Cullen,
I. J. Cullen,
B. Franzke,
J. Gerl,
M. Górska,
G. A. Jones,
A. Kishada,
R. Knöbel,
C. Kozhuharov,
J. Kurcewicz,
S. A. Litvinov,
Z. Liu,
S. Mandal,
F. Montes,
G. Münzenberg
, et al. (18 additional authors not shown)
Abstract:
Long-lived isomers in 212Bi have been studied following 238U projectile fragmentation at 670 MeV per nucleon. The fragmentation products were injected as highly charged ions into the GSI storage ring, giving access to masses and half-lives. While the excitation energy of the first isomer of 212Bi was confirmed, the second isomer was observed at 1478(30) keV, in contrast to the previously accepted…
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Long-lived isomers in 212Bi have been studied following 238U projectile fragmentation at 670 MeV per nucleon. The fragmentation products were injected as highly charged ions into the GSI storage ring, giving access to masses and half-lives. While the excitation energy of the first isomer of 212Bi was confirmed, the second isomer was observed at 1478(30) keV, in contrast to the previously accepted value of >1910 keV. It was also found to have an extended Lorentz-corrected in-ring halflife >30 min, compared to 7.0(3) min for the neutral atom. Both the energy and half-life differences can be understood as being due a substantial, though previously unrecognised, internal decay branch for neutral atoms. Earlier shell-model calculations are now found to give good agreement with the isomer excitation energy. Furthermore, these and new calculations predict the existence of states at slightly higher energy that could facilitate isomer de-excitation studies.
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Submitted 3 June, 2013;
originally announced June 2013.
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Exploring the anomaly in the interaction cross section and matter radius of 23O
Authors:
R. Kanungo,
A. Prochazka,
M. Uchida,
W. Horiuchi,
G. Hagen,
T. Papenbrock,
C. Nociforo,
T. Aumann,
D. Boutin,
D. Cortina-Gil,
B. Davids,
M. Diakaki,
F. Farinon,
H. Geissel,
R. Gernhauser,
J. Gerl,
R. Janik,
Ø. Jensen,
B. Jonson,
B. Kindler,
R. Knobel,
R. Krucken,
M. Lantz,
H. Lenske,
Y. Litvinov
, et al. (15 additional authors not shown)
Abstract:
New measurements of the interaction cross sections of 22,23O at 900A MeV performed at the GSI, Darmstadt are reported that address the unsolved puzzle of the large cross section previously observed for 23O. The matter radii for these oxygen isotopes extracted through a Glauber model analysis are in good agreement with the new predictions of the ab initio coupled-cluster theory reported here. They…
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New measurements of the interaction cross sections of 22,23O at 900A MeV performed at the GSI, Darmstadt are reported that address the unsolved puzzle of the large cross section previously observed for 23O. The matter radii for these oxygen isotopes extracted through a Glauber model analysis are in good agreement with the new predictions of the ab initio coupled-cluster theory reported here. They are consistent with a 22O+neutron description of 23O as well.
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Submitted 14 December, 2011;
originally announced December 2011.
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Comment on the paper "Search for oscillation of the electron-capture decay probability of $^{142}$Pm" at arXiv:0807.0649v1
Authors:
Yu. A. Litvinov,
F. Bosch,
N. Winckler,
D. Boutin,
H. G. Essel,
T. Faestermann,
H. Geissel,
S. Hess,
P. Kienle,
R. Knöbel,
C. Kozhuharov,
J. Kurcewicz,
L. Maier,
K. Beckert,
C. Brandau,
L. Chen,
C. Dimopoulou,
B. Fabian,
A. Fragner,
E. Haettner,
M. Hausmann,
S. A. Litvinov,
M. Mazzocco,
F. Montes,
A. Musumarra
, et al. (14 additional authors not shown)
Abstract:
It is argued that orbital electron-capture decays of neutral $^{142}$Pm atoms implanted into the lattice of a solid (LBNL experiment) do not fulfil the constraints of true two-body beta decays, since momentum as well as energy of the final state are distributed among three objects, namely the electron neutrino, the recoiling daughter atom and the lattice phonons. To our understanding, this could…
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It is argued that orbital electron-capture decays of neutral $^{142}$Pm atoms implanted into the lattice of a solid (LBNL experiment) do not fulfil the constraints of true two-body beta decays, since momentum as well as energy of the final state are distributed among three objects, namely the electron neutrino, the recoiling daughter atom and the lattice phonons. To our understanding, this could be a reason for the non-observation of a periodic time modulation in the number of electron-capture decays of implanted neutral $^{142}$Pm atoms.
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Submitted 15 July, 2008;
originally announced July 2008.
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Observation of Non-Exponential Orbital Electron Capture Decays of Hydrogen-Like $^{140}$Pr and $^{142}$Pm Ions
Authors:
Yu. A. Litvinov,
F. Bosch,
N. Winckler,
D. Boutin,
H. G. Essel,
T. Faestermann,
H. Geissel,
S. Hess,
P. Kienle,
R. Knöbel,
C. Kozhuharov,
J. Kurcewicz,
L. Maier,
K. Beckert,
P. Beller,
C. Brandau,
L. Chen,
C. Dimopoulou,
B. Fabian,
A. Fragner,
E. Haettner,
M. Hausmann,
S. A. Litvinov,
M. Mazzocco,
F. Montes
, et al. (15 additional authors not shown)
Abstract:
We report on time-modulated two-body weak decays observed in the orbital electron capture of hydrogen-like $^{140}$Pr$^{59+}$ and $^{142}$Pm$^{60+}$ ions coasting in an ion storage ring. Using non-destructive single ion, time-resolved Schottky mass spectrometry we found that the expected exponential decay is modulated in time with a modulation period of about 7 seconds for both systems. Tentativ…
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We report on time-modulated two-body weak decays observed in the orbital electron capture of hydrogen-like $^{140}$Pr$^{59+}$ and $^{142}$Pm$^{60+}$ ions coasting in an ion storage ring. Using non-destructive single ion, time-resolved Schottky mass spectrometry we found that the expected exponential decay is modulated in time with a modulation period of about 7 seconds for both systems. Tentatively this observation is attributed to the coherent superposition of finite mass eigenstates of the electron neutrinos from the weak decay into a two-body final state.
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Submitted 14 January, 2008;
originally announced January 2008.
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Measurement of the $β^+$ and orbital electron-capture decay rates in fully-ionized, hydrogen-like, and helium-like $^{140}$Pr ions
Authors:
Yu. A. Litvinov,
F. Bosch,
H. Geissel,
J. Kurcewicz,
Z. Patyk,
N. Winckler,
L. Batist,
K. Beckert,
D. Boutin,
C. Brandau,
L. Chen,
C. Dimopoulou,
B. Fabian,
T. Faestermann,
A. Fragner,
L. Grigorenko,
E. Haettner,
S. Hess,
P. Kienle,
R. Knöbel,
C. Kozhuharov,
S. A. Litvinov,
L. Maier,
M. Mazzocco,
F. Montes
, et al. (17 additional authors not shown)
Abstract:
We report on the first measurement of the $β^+$- and orbital electron capture decay rates of $^{140}$Pr nuclei with the most simple electron configurations: bare nuclei, hydrogen-like and helium-like ions. The measured electron capture decay constant of hydrogen-like $^{140}$Pr$^{58+}$ ions is about 50% larger than that of helium-like $^{140}$Pr$^{57+}$ ions. Moreover, $^{140}$Pr ions with one b…
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We report on the first measurement of the $β^+$- and orbital electron capture decay rates of $^{140}$Pr nuclei with the most simple electron configurations: bare nuclei, hydrogen-like and helium-like ions. The measured electron capture decay constant of hydrogen-like $^{140}$Pr$^{58+}$ ions is about 50% larger than that of helium-like $^{140}$Pr$^{57+}$ ions. Moreover, $^{140}$Pr ions with one bound electron decay faster than neutral $^{140}$Pr$^{0+}$ atoms with 59 electrons. To explain this peculiar observation one has to take into account the conservation of the total angular momentum, since only particular spin orientations of the nucleus and of the captured electron can contribute to the allowed decay.
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Submitted 23 November, 2007;
originally announced November 2007.
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New Mass and Lifetime Measurements of $^{152}$Sm Projectile Fragments with Time-Resolved Schottky Mass Spectrometry
Authors:
Yu. A. Litvinov,
F. Bosch,
H. Geissel,
H. Weick,
K. Beckert,
P. Beller,
D. Boutin,
C. Brandau,
L. Chen,
O. Klepper,
R. Knöbel,
C. Kozhuharov,
J. Kurcewicz,
S. A. Litvinov,
M. Mazzocco,
G. Münzenberg,
C. Nociforo,
F. Nolden,
W. Plaß,
C. Scheidenberger,
M. Steck,
B. Sun,
M. Winkler
Abstract:
The FRS-ESR facilities at GSI provide unique conditions for precision measurements with stored exotic nuclei over a large range in the chart of nuclides. In the present experiment the exotic nuclei were produced via fragmentation of $^{152}$Sm projectiles in a thick beryllium target at 500-600 MeV/u, separated in-flight with the fragment separator FRS, and injected into the storage-cooler ring E…
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The FRS-ESR facilities at GSI provide unique conditions for precision measurements with stored exotic nuclei over a large range in the chart of nuclides. In the present experiment the exotic nuclei were produced via fragmentation of $^{152}$Sm projectiles in a thick beryllium target at 500-600 MeV/u, separated in-flight with the fragment separator FRS, and injected into the storage-cooler ring ESR. Mass and lifetime measurements have been performed with bare and few-electron ions. The experiment and first results will be presented in this contribution.
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Submitted 15 September, 2005;
originally announced September 2005.