Abstract
The mass-measurement programme at GANIL aims to measure the masses of heavy nuclei close to the N = Z line which is the ideal region to study neutron-proton pairing. An original direct time-of-flight mass-measurement method was developed at GANIL which uses the CSS2 cyclotron as a high-resolution spectrometer. The masses of ions of A = 68, 76, 80 and 100 have been measured with a precision of a few 10-6. Mass measurements will be performed with the new CIME cyclotron of SPIRAL using a similar method based on the measurement of the phase of the accelerated ions for different radio-frequencies. A recently approved experiment will help develop this new technique and aims to measure the mass of 31Ar radioactive nuclei with a precision of 10-6.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 275-281 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Journal | Hyperfine Interactions |
| Volume | 132 |
| Issue number | 1-4 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2001 |