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In this article a comprehensive description and performance of the double Penning-trap setup JYFLTRAP will be detailed. The setup is designed for atomic mass measurements of both radioactive and stable ions and additionally serves as a very high-resolution mass separator. The setup is coupled to the IGISOL facility at the accelerator laboratory of the University of Jyväskylä. The trap has been online since 2003 and it was shut down in the summer of 2010 for relocation to the upgraded IGISOL facility. Numerous atomic mass and decay energy measurements have been performed using the time-of-flight ion-cyclotron resonance technique. The trap has also been used in several decay spectroscopy experiments as a high-resolution mass filter. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A novel method to determine independent yields in particle-induced fission employing the ion guide technique and ion counting after a Penning trap has been developed. The method takes advantage of the fact that a Penning trap can be used as a precision mass filter, which allows an unambiguous identification of the fission fragments. The method was tested with 25MeV and 50MeV proton-induced fission of 238U . The data is internally reproducible with an accuracy of a few per cent. A satisfactory agreement was obtained with older ion guide yield measurements in 25MeV proton-induced fission. The results for Rb and Cs yields in 50MeV proton-induced fission agree with previous measurements performed at an isotope separator equipped with a chemically selective ion source. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A survey of neutron-deficient nuclides which can be produced via proton- and 3He -induced fusion-evaporation reactions in the A = 100 region was made using a Penning trap as a high-resolution mass filter. A comparison of the measured isotopic rates with a statistical model calculation for the proton-induced reactions shows the importance of using the precise binding energy values for the final reaction products. In particular, proton separation energies were found to play an important role in the evaporation process. In addition, accurate masses of 12 nuclides, 97-99, 101Pd , 100Ag , 101-105Cd and 102, 104In , were determined with uncertainties of less than 10keV. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A radiofrequency quadrupole (RFQ) cooler and buncher and two Penning traps form the JYFLTRAP setup, which is located at the Department of Physics, University of Jyväskylä, Finland. It is used as a high-resolution mass filter for decay-spectroscopy experiments as well as for high-precision mass measurements. Recent developments have enabled JYFLTRAP to prepare isomerically clean beams with a mass resolving power R = M/ΔM ≥ 106. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A new technique to produce isobarically pure ion beams for decay spectroscopy by using a gas-filled Penning trap was commissioned at the ion guide isotope separator on-line facility, IGISOL. β-decays of neutron-rich 100Zr, 102Zr and 104Zr isotopes were studied with this technique. In addition, the $\ensuremath Q_{\beta^{-}}$ values of 100,102,104Zr β-decays were determined from the direct mass measurements of zirconium and niobium isotopes performed with a high-precision Penning trap. The mass of 104Nb was directly measured for the first time and the obtained mass excess value for the longer-living (1+) state is -71823±10 keV. For the ground states of 100Nb and 102Nb the obtained mass excess values were -79802±20 keV and -76309±10 keV, respectively. The observed distribution of the β strength supports a prolate deformation assignment for 100,102,104Zr isotopes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

JYFLTRAP is a Penning trap system at the accelerator laboratory in Jyväskylä, Finland that enables high-precision experiments with stored, exotic species that are produced at the IGISOL facility. On one hand, these can be performed within the trap itself, like e.g. mass spectrometry. On the other hand, the trap can be used to provide the highly purified species for further experiments, e.g. for trap-assisted nuclear decay spectroscopy. This contribution focuses on these two possible applications with the presentation of some recent results on superallowed beta decays. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The masses of 80, 81, 82, 83Y, 83, 84, 85, 86, 88Zr and 85, 86, 87, 88Nb have been measured with a typical precision of 7keV by using the Penning trap setup at IGISOL. The mass of 84Zr has been measured for the first time. These precise mass measurements have improved Sp and QEC values for astrophysically important nuclides. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Various ion manipulation tools based on ion trapping technologies have been implemented at the IGISOL-facility in JYFL. An RFQ ion cooler and buncher is used to enhance the sensitivity of collinear laser spectroscopy and as an injector to the Penning trap. Penning traps are utilized both in nuclear spectroscopy and for precision mass measurements, as explained in the paper. Atomic masses of neutron-rich Zr, Mo and Sr isotopes were found to be in disagreement with the Atomic-Mass Evaluation and two-neutron separation energies imply strong nuclear structure effects at the neutron number N = 60. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]