Atomic & Molecular
Physics Group
at the Instituts für Physik der Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald
Ion Trapping and Mass Spectrometry
for Nuclear,
Atomic and Molecular Physics Research
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Breaking
News:
Direct mapping of
nuclear shell effects in the heaviest elements
appeared in Science,
online 9. Aug. 2012,
link to article: DOI: 10.1126/science.1225636
press releases: http://www.uni-greifswald.de/physik01
idw (in
English), idw (in German)
see also http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/
š
http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/2012/08/tweaked-weighing-scales-help-map-island-stability
as
well as
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/08/120810133153.htm
http://www.iconocast.com/08-10-2012/50/Stabilizing-shell-effects-in-heaviest-elements-directly-measured.php
http://ihatepaypal.net/2012/08/10/pinning-down-the-island-of-stability-stabilizing-shell-effects-in-heaviest-elements-directly-measured/
http://www.silobreaker.com/pinning-down-the-island-of-stability-stabilizing-shell-effects-in-heaviest-elements-directly-measured-5_2265896645822513339
http://arstechnica.com/science/2012/08/shell-game-why-heavier-atoms-might-get-stable-again/
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Upcoming events:
10th Int. Workshop on Non-Neutral Plasmas,
Aug 27 – 30, 2012, Greifswald
visit http://www.ipp.mpg.de/nnp2012/
A few Highlights:
Q-Value and Half-Lives
for the Double-Beta-Decay Nuclide 110Pd
PRL
108, 062502 (2012) press release (in German): idw
Resonant enhancement of
neutrinoless double electron capture in 152Gd
PRL
106, 052504 (2011) press release (in German): idw
2010: Lutz Schweikhard elected Fellow of the American Physical
Society
“for his developments of ion-trapping techniques and their
application …” press
release (in German): idw
Direct mass measurements above
uranium bridge the gap to the island of stability
Nature
463, 785 (2010) press
release (in German): idw
PRL 102, 112501 (2009) media
echo (in German): idw, FAZ
Other recent Publications of the Atomic
& Molecular Physics Group:
·
on
Precision Mass Mesurements of Short-Lived Nuclei:
Critical-point boundary
for the nuclear quantum phase transition near A = 100 from mass measurements of
96,97Kr, S. Naimi et al., PRL
105, 032502 (2010)
·
on
Cluster Physics:
First
observation of a tetra-anionic metal cluster, Aln4-, N. Walsh et al., J. Chem. Phys. 132, 014308 (2010)
·
on
Ion-Storage Techniques:
Lifting of the trapping-potential during ion storage for
multi-anion production in a Penning trap, F. Martinez et al., Int. J. Mass Spectrom. 313, 30 (2012)
Static-mirror
ion capture and time focusing for electrostatic ion-beam traps and
multi-reflection time-of-flight mass analyzers by use of an in-trap potential
lift, R.N. Wolf et
al., Int. J. Mass Spectrom. 313, 8 (2012)
Unintended parametric ejection of ions from an ICR trap by
two-electrode axialization, F. Martinez et al., Eur. J. Mass Spectrom. 15,
283 (2009)
Contact:
Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald, Institut für Physik
Felix-Hausdorff-Str. 6, D-17487 Greifswald, Germany
phone: +49-3834-86-4700, fax: 86-4701