1. New mass anchor points for neutron-deficient heavy nuclei from direct mass measurements of radium and actinium isotopes
- Author
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Hiroari Miyatake, Kouji Morimoto, Daiya Kaji, Kosuke Morita, M. MacCormick, Y. Ito, Mikael Reponen, Peter Schury, J.Y. Moon, A. Takamine, S. Kimura, T. Niwase, Akira Ozawa, Hermann Wollnik, Hiroyuki Koura, Michiharu Wada, Hiromitsu Haba, Marco Rosenbusch, I. Murray, T. Tanaka, Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay (IPNO), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay ( IPNO ), and Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 ( UP11 ) -Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS ( IN2P3 ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS )
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Physics ,Isotope ,010308 nuclear & particles physics ,chemistry.chemical_element ,FOS: Physical sciences ,[PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex] ,Mass spectrometry ,01 natural sciences ,7. Clean energy ,Ion ,Nuclear physics ,Radium ,Actinium ,Recoil ,chemistry ,0103 physical sciences ,Neutron ,[ PHYS.NEXP ] Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex] ,Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex) ,010306 general physics ,Spectroscopy ,Nuclear Experiment - Abstract
The masses of the exotic isotopes $^{210\ensuremath{-}214}\mathrm{Ac}$ and $^{210\ensuremath{-}214}\mathrm{Ra}$ have been measured with a multireflection time-of-flight mass spectrograph. These isotopes were obtained in flight as fusion-evaporation products behind the gas-filled recoil ion separator GARIS-II at RIKEN. The new direct mass measurements serve as an independent and direct benchmark for existing $\ensuremath{\alpha}\text{\ensuremath{-}}\ensuremath{\gamma}$ spectroscopy data in this mass region. Further, new mass anchor points are set for U and Np nuclei close to the $N=126$ shell closure for a future benchmark of the $Z=92$ subshell for neutron-deficient heavy isotopes. Our mass results are in general in good agreement with the previously indirectly determined mass values. Together with the measurement data, reasons for possible mass ambiguities from decay-data links between ground states are discussed.
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- 2018