Measurement of the first ionization potential of astatine by laser ionization spectroscopy

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Rothe, S ^a,b   Andreyev, A N ^c,d,e,f   Antalic, S ^g   Borschevsky, A ^h,i   Capponi, L ^d,e   Cocolios, T E ^a   De Witte, H ^j   Eliav, E ^k   Fedorov, D V ^l   Fedosseev, V N ^a   Fink, D A ^a,m   Fritzsche, S ^n,o,v   Ghys, L ^j,p   Huyse, M ^j   Imai, N ^a,q   Kaldor, U ^k   Kudryavtsev, Yuri ^j   Koster U ^r   Lane, J F W ^d,e   Lassen, J ^s   Liberati, V ^d,e   Lynch, K M ^a,t   Marsh, B A ^a   Nishio, K ^f   Pauwels, D ^p   Pershina, V ⁿ   Popescu, L ^p   Procter, T J ^t   Radulov, D ^j   Raeder, S ^b,s   Rajabali, M M ^j   Rapisarda, E ^j   Rossel, R E ^b   Sandhu, K ^d,e   Seliverstov, M D ^a,d,e,j,l   Sjodin A M ^a   Van Den Bergh, P ^j   Van Duppen, P ^j   Venhart, M ^u   Wakabayashi, Y ^f   Wendt, K D A ^b   more..

^a CERN   (Switzerland)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF SCOTLAND   (United Kingdom)

^e Scottish Universities Physics Alliance   (United Kingdom)

^f JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^g Faculty of Natural Sciences   (Slovakia)

^h MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

ⁱ HELMHOLTZ INSTITUTE MAINZ   (Germany)

^j UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^k TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^l PETERSBURG NUCLEAR PHYSICS INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^m UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

ⁿ GSI HELMHOLTZZENTRUM FÜR SCHWERIONENFORSCHUNG GMBH   (Germany)

^o FRANKFURT INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Germany)

^p BELGIAN NUCLEAR RESEARCH CENTRE   (Belgium)

^q HIGH ENERGY ACCELERATOR RESEARCH ORGANIZATION KEK   (Japan)

^r INSTITUT LAUE LANGEVIN   (France)

^s TRIUMF   (Canada)

^t UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^u INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Slovakia)

^v HELMHOLTZ INSTITUTE JENA   (Germany)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTATINE;

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; IONIZATION; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT METHOD; PREDICTION; RADIONUCLIDE; SPECTROSCOPY; THRESHOLD;

AB INITIO CALCULATION; ARTICLE; IONIZATION; LASER IONIZATION SPECTROSCOPY; PREDICTION; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; SPECTROSCOPY; SPECTRUM;

EID: 84878569491     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2819     Document Type: Article

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