Exotic Nuclei and Atomic Masses: Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Exotic Nuclei and Atomic Masses ENAM 2001 Hämeenlinna, Finland, 2–7 July 2001

Front Matter....Pages i-xix
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Present knowledge of atomic masses....Pages 3-7
Direct mass measurements of exotic nuclei....Pages 9-13
A Hartree-Fock nuclear mass formula....Pages 15-18
Nuclear binding energies: global collective structures and local shell-model correlations....Pages 19-20
MISTRAL....Pages 21-24
Accurate mass measurements of very short-lived nuclei....Pages 25-28
The measurement of the electronic g-factor in hydrogen-like ions — A promising tool for determining fundamental and nuclear constants....Pages 29-32
Direct mass measurements of Ge, As, Se and Br isotopes close to the proton drip line....Pages 33-37
Mass measurements of proton-rich nuclides using the Canadian Penning trap mass spectrometer....Pages 39-41
Symmetry energies, pairing energies, and binding energies of atomic nuclei....Pages 43-43
New neutron magic number N = 16 for neutron-rich nuclei....Pages 44-44
Mass measurements of relativistic exotic nuclei at the FRS-ESR facility at GSI....Pages 45-45
Footprints of shell effects in light-neutron rich nuclei....Pages 46-46
Status of the SHIPTRAP facility at GSI....Pages 47-47
Mass measurements on unstable Sn and Sr isotopes with the ISOLTRAP mass spectrometer....Pages 48-48
Nuclear masses: Statistical modeling with neural nets....Pages 49-49
Atomic mass determinations in the region A = 183 to 201....Pages 50-50
Nuclear deformation and pairing energy in n-deficient Hg isotopes....Pages 51-51
Front Matter....Pages 53-53
Nuclear ground-state properties from mean-field calculations....Pages 55-60
Nuclear-matter distributions of halo nuclei from elastic proton scattering in inverse kinematics....Pages 61-67
Front Matter....Pages 53-53
Lasers in nuclear physics — A review....Pages 69-73
First results from laser spectroscopy on bunched radioactive beams from the JYFL ion-beam cooler....Pages 75-78
Charge radius change in the heavy tin isotopes until A = 132 from laser spectroscopy....Pages 79-81
Charge radius and electromagnetic moments of 153 Yb....Pages 83-84
Isotope shifts in natural cerium....Pages 85-85
Hyperfine structure and isotope shift measurements of long-lived La isotopes by collinear laser spectroscopy....Pages 86-86
Collinear laser spectroscopy of ZrII....Pages 87-87
Laser spectroscopy measurement of isotope shifts and nuclear moments of short-lived neon isotopes....Pages 88-88
Nuclear spin and moments of 73 Kr and odd—even staggering in the radii of light krypton isotopes....Pages 89-89
The time evolution of 229 Th 89+ ....Pages 90-90
Front Matter....Pages 91-91
Stars from birth to death: Laboratories for exotic nuclei?....Pages 93-98
Nuclear-reaction rates in the thermonuclear runaway phase of accreting neutron stars....Pages 99-103
Coulomb breakup of 8 B and the flux of 8 B neutrinos from the Sun....Pages 105-108
Asymptotic normalization coefficients in nuclear astrophysics and structure....Pages 109-113
Isomeric state of 80 Y and its role in the rp-process....Pages 115-116
Systematic studies of β-decay half-lives of new neutron-rich lanthanide isotopes....Pages 117-117
Front Matter....Pages 119-119
Beta-decay and exotic nuclei....Pages 121-125
New experimental results in proton radioactivity....Pages 127-130
New results on proton emission from odd-odd nuclei....Pages 131-133
New developments in the theory of proton radioactivity....Pages 135-138
Front Matter....Pages 119-119
Theory of two-proton radioactivity with application to 19 Mg, 45 Fe, 48 Ni, 54 Zn, and 62 Se....Pages 139-139
Alpha decay of 114 Ba....Pages 140-140
Doppler broadened gamma lines as a means to derive new information about the β-decay of 11 Li....Pages 141-141
β-decay in the A = 9 isobar....Pages 142-142
Proton fine structure studies of 146 Tm at HRIBF....Pages 143-143
Estimation of beta- and gamma-ray spectra for fission product nuclei....Pages 144-144
Front Matter....Pages 145-145
Probing shell structure in neutron-rich nuclei with in-beam γ-spectroscopy....Pages 147-151
Spectroscopy of nuclei around N = 20 with direct reactions....Pages 153-157
The dipole response of nuclei with large neutron excess....Pages 159-159
A realistic solvable model for the Coulomb dissociation of neutron halo nuclei....Pages 161-164
Production of low- and high-energy radioactive-ion beams by fragmentation....Pages 165-168
Gamma spectroscopy of the last bound oxygen isotopes....Pages 169-169
Investigation of 8 B structure at low excitation energies....Pages 170-170
Antineutron-nucleus interaction in the OBELIX experiment....Pages 171-171
Normalisation of the two-nucleon form factor for the ( 6 He, 4 He) transfer reactions....Pages 172-172
Transition strength of neutron unbound states in 11 Be....Pages 173-173
Isospin identification for highly-excited Gamow—Teller and M1 states in mirror nuclei....Pages 174-174
Skin structure and sub-barrier fusion: the cases of 6 He and 48 Ca....Pages 175-175
Cross sections for high energy breakup of nuclear halos....Pages 176-176
Reaction mechanisms for breakup of nuclear halos....Pages 177-177
Front Matter....Pages 145-145
 6,8 He: a comparative study of fragmentation reactions....Pages 178-179
Study of low-energy reactions with a post-accelerated radioactive 6 He ion beam....Pages 180-180
Interaction potential and reaction cross section of neutron rich nuclei on protons....Pages 181-182
Coulomb dissociation of 12 N and 13 O....Pages 183-183
Studies of low-lying excited states in 12 Be via inelastic scattering....Pages 184-184
Study of halo nuclei breakup in light targets at intermediate energies....Pages 185-185
Elastic proton scattering from neutron-rich He-isotopes at intermediate energies and high momentum transfer....Pages 186-186
High resolution studies of multi-nucleon transfer reactions....Pages 187-187
Front Matter....Pages 189-189
Haloes and clustering in light, neutron-rich nuclei....Pages 191-195
Structure and reactions of halo nuclei: An entangled approach....Pages 197-202
Studies with one- and two-proton drip line nuclei....Pages 203-206
Conditions for halo occurrence....Pages 207-210
Superheavy hydrogen 5 H....Pages 211-214
Three-body decays of light nuclei: 6 Be, 8 Li, 9 Be, 12 O, 16 Ne, and 17 Ne....Pages 215-219
Nuclear structure of 5 H in a three-body 3 H+n+n model....Pages 221-221
Two-proton events in the 17 F(p, 2p) 16 O reaction....Pages 222-222
Decay characteristics of neutron-rich nuclei — new results for 14 Be....Pages 223-223
Structure of 10 Li from the properties of 11 Li....Pages 224-224
Spectroscopy at the drip line: the case of 31 Ar....Pages 225-225
E1 strength function for two-neutron halo nuclei in an analytical three-body approach....Pages 226-226
Front Matter....Pages 189-189
Low-lying resonance states in 7 He....Pages 227-228
Investigation of t + t collisions using the ACCULINNA beam line....Pages 229-229
Looking for the structure of drip-line nuclei around A = 40 to 50....Pages 230-231
Study of the s-wave properties in the 9 Li-n system with the Jost function method....Pages 232-232
Isobaric analog state of 14 Be....Pages 233-233
Resonances in 10,11 N explored by elastic resonance scattering....Pages 234-234
Front Matter....Pages 235-235
Molecular structure of nuclei....Pages 237-239
Correlated emission of three α-particles in the β-decay of 12 N....Pages 241-244
Three-cluster states in the spectrum of 8 Be: structure, isospin mixing and β-decay of 8 B to 16.6 MeV state....Pages 245-245
Cluster structure in light neutron-rich nuclei....Pages 246-246
Study of α-cluster states of 22 Mg from resonance scattering of a post-accelerated 18 Ne radioactive ion beam....Pages 247-248
On microscopic descriptions of α-cluster states in light nuclei....Pages 249-249
Microscopic coupled-channel OCM study of the 6 He+ 6 He molecular resonances in highly-excited 12 Be....Pages 250-250
Molecular states in 12 Be and 14 Be....Pages 251-251
Structures of the excited states of Be isotopes....Pages 252-252
Front Matter....Pages 253-253
Decay properties of N ≃ Z nuclei....Pages 255-260
Large-scale shell model calculations for exotic nuclei....Pages 261-266
Frontiers and challenges of nuclear shell model....Pages 267-271
Shape coexistence and the N = 20 shell closure far from stability by inelastic scattering....Pages 273-276
Mirror pairs and T = 1 isobaric triplets in mass A ≈ 70....Pages 277-280
Front Matter....Pages 253-253
High-spin proton and alpha-particle emission as probes for nuclear structure....Pages 281-285
The structure and spectroscopy of neutron-rich nuclei....Pages 287-290
Physics with heavy neutron-rich RIBs at the HRIBF....Pages 291-293
New insights into neutron-rich nuclei at high spin....Pages 295-299
The neutron and proton two-particle nucleus 134 Sb: New low-spin states observed in the decay of 134 Sn and an estimate of the energy of the 7 − isomer....Pages 301-304
Decay studies of N ≈ Z nuclei from 75 Sr to 102 Sn....Pages 305-308
Probing intruder structures in lead nuclei....Pages 309-312
In-beam studies of very neutron-deficient heavy nuclei....Pages 313-317
The population of deformed bands in 4N nuclei by emission of 8 Be and 12 C....Pages 319-319
Nuclear physics with a separable monopole interaction....Pages 320-320
Spectroscopy of neutron rich microsecond isomers near the doubly magic 132 Sn....Pages 321-321
First observation of the β-decay of neutron-rich 215 Pb and 218 Bi by the pulsed-release technique and resonant laser ionisation....Pages 322-322
β decay of the nuclei 60 Ga (T z =−1), 62 Ga, and 70 Br (T z =0)....Pages 323-323
Triaxiality and tilted -bands in heavy osmium nuclei....Pages 324-324
Beta decay of 56 Cu....Pages 325-326
β-decay of 78 Cu produced with the ISOLDE resonance ionization laser ion source....Pages 327-327
Octupole correlations in heavy odd-A Ra isotopes....Pages 328-328
High spin states of 135 Pr....Pages 329-329
Spectroscopy of very neutron-deficient 187,189 Bi isotopes....Pages 330-330
Beta decay of 96 Ag isomers and delayed proton emission to 95 Rh levels....Pages 331-331
Front Matter....Pages 253-253
Low-lying shears bands in very light odd—odd Bi isotopes....Pages 332-332
Nuclear structure of exotic neutron-rich 149 Ce and 147 La....Pages 333-333
A step further in the A = 33−35, N ≃ 21, island of inversion: the structure of 33 Mg....Pages 334-334
Development of quadrupole collectivity in the neutron-rich Ni, Zn, Ge, and Se isotopes....Pages 335-335
Gamow—Teller strength distribution near 100 Sn: The β decay of 102 In....Pages 336-336
Nuclear decay studies of 213–216 Ac and 209–212 Ra....Pages 337-338
Isomeric 0 + state in 12 Be....Pages 339-340
The mixed-symmetric one-phonon 2 + state in 96 Mo....Pages 341-341
Rotational bands in the proton emitters 131 Eu and 141 Ho....Pages 342-343
Total absorption measurements in the rare-earth region....Pages 344-344
Nuclear level density from beta decay measurements: The Gamow—Teller resonance as a lens to study nuclear properties....Pages 345-345
Single-particle and three-quasiparticle cluster states in the light Sn and Sb nuclides....Pages 346-346
Beta-delayed neutron spectroscopy by the TOF technique at IGISOL: 95 Rb as a test case....Pages 347-347
Octupole correlations in the 114 Xe nucleus determined through linear polarization analysis with EUROBALL....Pages 348-348
Medium-spin structure of neutron-rich Pd and Cd isotopes....Pages 349-349
Population of the 168-keV first excited state in 103 Sn in the alpha decay of 107 Te....Pages 350-350
Front Matter....Pages 351-351
Status and prospects of synthesizing superheavy elements....Pages 353-358
Fine structure in fragment mass-energy distribution from 238 U+ 40 Ar (275 MeV)....Pages 359-361
Synthesis of superheavy nuclei in the reactions of 244 Pu and 248 Cm with 48 Ca....Pages 363-366
In-beam spectroscopy of 253,254 No....Pages 367-370
Front Matter....Pages 351-351
Microscopic structure of superdeformed states in Th, U, Pu and Cm isotopes with Gogny force....Pages 371-374
Fission studies with relativistic beams....Pages 375-377
Estimation of alpha-decay half-lives and fission barriers in the superheavy nuclidic region from the viewpoint of a new mass formula....Pages 379-379
Isomeric states and uncharacterized α-particle groups in nature....Pages 380-380
New model and code for calculation of product yields in fusion-fission reactions....Pages 381-381
Measurement of the production cross-sections of neutron-rich Kr and Xe isotopes....Pages 382-383
Front Matter....Pages 385-385
Low-energy weak-interaction studies....Pages 387-391
Superallowed 0 + → 0 + beta-decay and CKM unitarity....Pages 393-397
Tests of the standard model from superallowed Fermi β -decay studies: The 74 Rb β -decay....Pages 399-402
Symmetry in exotic nuclei....Pages 403-406
Coulomb effects in Fermi β decay of 74 Rb....Pages 407-407
Front Matter....Pages 409-409
Ion traps — Precision measurements and more....Pages 411-417
Carbon clusters for absolute mass measurements at ISOLTRAP....Pages 419-422
Back to the line of stability....Pages 423-427
Ion beam cooler-buncher at the IGISOL facility....Pages 429-429
Penning trap at IGISOL....Pages 430-430
The LEBIT project at NSCL/MSU....Pages 431-431
Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance at SHIPTRAP....Pages 432-432
A radiofrequency quadrupole (RFQ) for accumulation and cooling of heavy radionuclides at the SHIPTRAP facility at GSI....Pages 433-433
Front Matter....Pages 435-435
Intense radioactive-ion beams produced with the ISOL method....Pages 437-445
Front Matter....Pages 435-435
Gamma-ray tracking: Utilizing new concepts in the detection of gamma-radiation....Pages 447-451
The art of digital spectroscopy — a new tool in action....Pages 453-457
Heavy-element chemistry — Status and perspectives....Pages 459-462
Applications of radioactive ion beams to solid-state physics....Pages 463-468
The ISOLDE facility at CERN....Pages 469-472
Nuclear astrophysics with DRAGON at ISAC....Pages 473-475
Status of REX-ISOLDE....Pages 477-477
Future prospects on RNB production using photo fission....Pages 478-478
Q β determination of fission products with a total absorption detector without information of the decay scheme....Pages 479-479
Release and yields of lithium isotopes from high temperature targets....Pages 480-480
Studying exotic nuclides close to the N = Z line at the HIGISOL facility....Pages 481-481
A new Total Absorption Spectrometer for the study of exotic nuclei at the CERN/ISOLDE mass separator....Pages 482-483
RIB production test at ISOLDE with 600 MeV protons....Pages 484-484
First commissioning results of the n_TOF facility at CERN....Pages 485-485
The heavy-ion magnetic spectrometer PRISMA....Pages 486-486
Spin polarized solid proton target for experiments by the radio-isotope beam....Pages 487-488
High-efficiency ultra-trace detection of 85 Kr....Pages 489-489
Direct evidence of beam emittance reduction using a gas-filled radiofrequency quadrupole ion guide....Pages 490-490
New approach to evaluate the angular transmission in zero-degree magnetic spectrometers....Pages 491-491
Recent developments at the RITU focal plane....Pages 492-492
Front Matter....Pages 435-435
SACRED @ RITU....Pages 493-493
Recoil-isomer tagging techniques at RITU....Pages 494-494
High temperature uranium carbide targets....Pages 495-495
Front Matter....Pages 497-497
Concluding remarks....Pages 499-502
Back Matter....Pages 503-540