Binding Energy of Strongly Deformed Radionuclides - Penning-Trap Mass Spectrometry and Mean-Field Theoretical Studies

This thesis reports results of precision mass spectrometry of exotic nuclides as a means of elucidating their structure. The work was performed with the ISOLTRAP spectrometer at CERN's ISOLDE facility. The author furthermore offers an overview of existing techniques used in Penning-trap mass spectrometry and also reports on recent promising developments regarding ISOLTRAP. This eloquently written treatment covers both theory and experiment, and includes a general phenomenological introduction to the nuclear-structure intuition contained in the trends of nuclear binding energies.

List of contents

Nuclear Observables.- Experimental Method and Data Analysis.- Nuclear-Theory Concepts.- Self-Consistent Mean-Field Calculations.- Conclusions and Outlook.

About the author

Vladimir Manea received his physics bachelor degree from the University of Bucharest in 2010. He then followed the master courses of Université Paris-Sud in Orsay, from which in 2011 he received a three-year PhD scholarship to work on mass spectrometry in the nuclear-structure group of Centre de Sciences Nucléaires et de Sciences de la Matière, Orsay. His PhD research took place at CERN in the ISOLDE laboratory, where he performed Penning-trap mass spectrometry of radioactive nuclides with the ISOLTRAP setup. Since his PhD graduation in 2014 he continues at ISOLTRAP as a postdoc of the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg.

Summary

This thesis reports results of precision mass spectrometry of exotic nuclides as a means of elucidating their structure. The work was performed with the ISOLTRAP spectrometer at CERN’s ISOLDE facility. The author furthermore offers an overview of existing techniques used in Penning-trap mass spectrometry and also reports on recent promising developments regarding ISOLTRAP. This eloquently written treatment covers both theory and experiment, and includes a general phenomenological introduction to the nuclear-structure intuition contained in the trends of nuclear binding energies.

Product details

• Authors: Vladimir Manea
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2016
• EAN: 9783319370125
• ISBN: 978-3-31-937012-5
• No. of pages: 121
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 8 mm x 235 mm
• Weight: 244 g
• Illustrations: XXIX, 121 p. 33 illus., 8 illus. in color.
• Series: Springer Theses; Springer Theses
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Atomic physics, nuclear physics; B, Microscopy, Spektroskopie, Spektrochemie, Massenspektrometrie, spectroscopy, Spectroscopy and Microscopy, Nuclear physics, Physics and Astronomy, Spectrum analysis, spectrochemistry, mass spectrometry, Scientific equipment, experiments & techniques, Heavy ions, Nuclear Physics, Heavy Ions, Hadrons, Penning trap mass spectrometry, Shape transition regions