Atomic Physics at Accelerators: Mass Spectrometry: Proceedings of the APAC 2000, held in Cargèse, France, 19–23 September 2000

Front Matter....Pages i-6
The Evaluation of Atomic Masses....Pages 7-34
Experimental Overview of Mass Measurements....Pages 35-57
The Quest for a Microscopic Nuclear Mass Formula....Pages 59-74
Effects of QED and Beyond from the Atomic Binding Energy....Pages 75-103
Nuclear Masses and the r- and p-Processes of Nucleosynthesis....Pages 105-114
Standard-Model Tests with Superallowed β -Decay: An Important Application of Very Precise Mass Measurements....Pages 115-126
Memories of Mass Determinations....Pages 127-131
Masses and Proton Separation Energies Obtained from Q α and Q p Measurements....Pages 133-139
Anomalies in the α -Decay Energies and Half-Lives of Neutron-Deficient Po Isotopes....Pages 141-146
Shape Coexistence and the N = 28 Shell Closure Far from Stability....Pages 147-152
Decay Experiments on N ~ Z nuclei: The role of Masses, Q Values and Separation Energies....Pages 153-161
Ultra-Precise Mass Measurements Using the UW-PTMS....Pages 163-175
Precise Measurements of the Masses of Cs, Rb and Na — A New Route to the Fine Structure Constant....Pages 177-187
Prompt (n, γ ) Mass Measurements for the AVOGADRO Project....Pages 189-194
Precision Measurement of the Charged Pion Mass by High Resolution X-Ray Spectroscopy....Pages 195-207
A Possible New Value for the Electron Mass from g -Factor Measurements on Hydrogen-Like Ions....Pages 209-213
Mass Measurements on Short-Lived Nuclides with ISOLTRAP....Pages 215-222
The Canadian Penning Trap Spectrometer at Argonne....Pages 223-230
Recent Progress with the SMILETRAP Penning Mass Spectrometer....Pages 231-244
The SPEG Mass Measurement Program at GANIL....Pages 245-254
Mass Measurements at the Wright Nuclear Structure Laboratory....Pages 255-263
Mass Measurements in Nuclear Reactions....Pages 265-273
The Mass Programme at GANIL Using the CSS2 and CIME Cyclotrons....Pages 275-281
Schottky Mass Measurements of Cooled Exotic Nuclei....Pages 283-289
Isochronous Mass Measurements of Hot Exotic Nuclei....Pages 291-297
Recent Results on Ne and Mg from the MISTRAL Mass Measurement Program at ISOLDE....Pages 299-307
Towards Shorter-Lived Nuclides in ISOLTRAP Mass Measurements....Pages 309-314
Mass Measurements of Exotic Nuclei around N = Z = 40 with CSS2....Pages 315-322
Determination of Atomic Masses and Nuclear Binding Energies via Neutron Induced Reactions....Pages 323-329
Mass Measurements of 114–124,130 Xe with the ISOLTRAP Penning Trap Spectrometer....Pages 331-335
Accurate Mass Determination of Neutron-Deficient Nuclides Close to Z = 82 with ISOLTRAP....Pages 337-340
QED Effects in Heavy Few-Electron Ions....Pages 341-348
Relativistic Calculations for Trapped Ions....Pages 349-363
Parity Nonconserving (PNC) Electroweak Radiative Corrections for Highly Charged Ions (HCI)....Pages 365-368
Vacuum-Polarization Screening Corrections to the Low-Lying Energy Levels of Heliumlike Ions....Pages 369-374
Calculation of QED Effects in Hydrogen....Pages 375-377
Testing of QED-Theory and Precise Measurements of the Rydberg Series for the He-Like Multicharged Ions....Pages 379-383
Accurate Calculations on Dielectronic Recombination Resonances in Cu-like Pb....Pages 385-391
Calculation of the Interelectronic-Interaction Correction to Radiative Recombination of an Electron with a Heavy He-Like Ion....Pages 393-396
Evaluation of the Two-Photon Self-Energy Correction for Hydrogenlike Ions....Pages 397-400
Mass Predictions from Mean-Field Calculations....Pages 401-407
Monte Carlo Shell Model Mass Predictions....Pages 409-416
From Exploding Stars to the Laboratory: Nucleosynthesis in the rp-Process....Pages 417-424
Semiempirical Shell Model Masses with Magic Proton Number Z = 126 for Translead Elements....Pages 425-432
Towards a Skyrme-Hartree-Fock-Bogolyubov Mass Formula....Pages 433-437
The Use of Multi-Pass Time-of-Flight Mass Analyzers for Nuclear-Decay Spectroscopy of Mass Identified Nuclei....Pages 439-442
A Proposed Storage Ion Trap of an ‘In-Flight Capture’ Type for Precise Mass Measurement of Radioactive Nuclear Reaction Products and Fission Fragments....Pages 443-450
A Small Isochronous Storage Ring for Spectrometry....Pages 451-456
HITRAP: A Facility for Experiments with Trapped Highly Charged Ions....Pages 457-461
Status of the SHIPTRAP Project: A Capture and Storage Facility for Heavy Radionuclides from SHIP....Pages 463-468
Space-Charge Effects with REXTRAP....Pages 469-472
Space Charge Effects in a Gas Filled Penning Trap....Pages 473-478
Weak Interaction Studies Using a Paul Trap....Pages 479-484
Status of HIGISOL, a New Version Equipped with SPIG and Electric Field Guidance....Pages 485-490
Spectroscopy of Ly- α Lines at Storage Rings by Crystal Spectrometry and Absorption Edge Technique....Pages 491-494
A Physics Case for SHIPTRAP: Measuring the Masses of Transuranium Elements....Pages 495-499
Prospects of Ion Chemical Reactions with Heavy Elements in the Gas Phase....Pages 501-504
First Measurements with the Gas Cell for SHIPTRAP....Pages 505-509
Improvement of the Applicability, Efficiency, and Precision of the Penning Trap Mass Spectrometer ISOLTRAP....Pages 511-515
Electron Capture and Dissociative Excitation in Slow Collisions of Na + and K + Ions with Hydrogen and Nitrogen Molecules....Pages 517-520
Stopping, Trapping and Cooling of Radioactive Fission Fragments in an Ion Catcher Device....Pages 521-525
Time Characteristics of the Ion Beam Cooler-Buncher at JYFL....Pages 527-530
A New Concept for Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry with Slowed-down Short-Lived Isotopes....Pages 531-534
Feasibility of In-Trap Conversion Electron Spectroscopy....Pages 535-539
Back Matter....Pages 541-543