Towards a direct transition energy measurement of the lowest nuclear excitation in 229Th

Journal of Instrumentation

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Wense, L V D ^a,b   Thirolf, P G ^a   Kalb, D ^a   Laatiaoui, M ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

^c GSI HELMHOLTZZENTRUM FÜR SCHWERIONENFORSCHUNG GMBH   (Germany)

^d HELMHOLTZ INSTITUTE MAINZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Mass spectrometers; Particle identification methods; Photon detectors for UV, visible and IR photons (solid state)

Indexed keywords

DIRECT IDENTIFICATIONS; ENHANCED SENSITIVITY; EXPERIMENTAL ACTIVITIES; FINE STRUCTURE CONSTANTS; FUNDAMENTAL CONSTANTS; PARTICLE IDENTIFICATION METHOD; PHOTON DETECTOR; TRANSITION WAVELENGTHS;

EXCITED STATES; GROUND STATE; ISOTOPES; MASS SPECTROMETERS; PHOTONS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

NUCLEAR PHYSICS;

EID: 84875487754     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17480221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/8/03/P03005     Document Type: Article

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