1. Radioactive decays of highly-charged ions
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Gao B. S., Najafi M. A., Atanasov D. R., Blaum K., Bosch F., Brandau C., Chen X. C., Dillmann I., Dimopoulou Ch., Faestermann Th., Geissel H., Gernhäuser R., Hillenbrand P.-M., Kovalenko O., Kozhuharov C., Litvinov S. A., Litvinov Yu. A., Maier L., Nolden F., Piotrowski J., Sanjari M. S., Scheidenberger C., Spillmann U., Steck M., Stöhlker Th., Trageser Ch., Tu X. L., Weick H., Winckler N., Xu H. S., Yamaguchi T., Yan X. L., Zhang Y. H., and Zhou X. H.
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Physics ,QC1-999 - Abstract
Access to stored and cooled highly-charged radionuclides offers unprecedented opportunities to perform high-precision investigations of their decays. Since the few-electron ions, e.g. hydrogen- or helium-like ions, are quantum mechanical systems with clear electronic ground state configurations, the decay studies of such ions are performed under well-defined conditions and allow for addressing fundamental aspects of the decay process. Presented here is a compact review of the relevant experiments conducted at the Experimental Storage Ring ESR of GSI. A particular emphasis is given to the investigations of the two-body beta decay, namely the bound-state β-decay and its time-mirrored counterpart, orbital electron-capture.
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- 2015
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