Progress with the MPIK/UW-PTMS in Heidelberg

Hyperfine Interactions

Volumn 199, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 291-300

  Diehl, Christoph ^a   Blaum, Klaus ^a   Höcker, Martin ^a   Ketter, Jochen ^a   Pinegar, David B ^a   Streubel, Sebastian ^a   van Dyck Jr , Robert S ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR KERNPHYSIK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

3H 3He Q value determination; Environment stabilization; Non destructive detection technique; Penning trap mass spectrometry

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051797911     PISSN: 03043843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10751-011-0324-6     Document Type: Article

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