Schottky mass spectrometry utilizing heavy-ion storage rings is a powerful technique for the precise mass and decay half-life measurements of highly charged ions.Owing to the nondestructive ion detection features of S...Schottky mass spectrometry utilizing heavy-ion storage rings is a powerful technique for the precise mass and decay half-life measurements of highly charged ions.Owing to the nondestructive ion detection features of Schottky noise detectors,the number of stored ions in the ring is determined by the peak area in the measured revolution frequency spectrum.Because of their intrinsic amplitude-frequency characteristic(AFC),Schottky detector systems exhibit varying sensitivities at different frequencies.Using low-energy electron-cooled stored ions,a new method is developed to calibrate the AFC curve of the Schottky detector system of the Experimental Cooler Storage Ring(CSRe)storage ring located in Lanzhou,China.Using the amplitude-calibrated frequency spectrum,a notable refinement was observed in the precision of both the peak position and peak area.As a result,the storage lifetimes of the electron-cooled fully ionized^(56)Fe^(26+)ions were determined with high precision at beam energies of 13.7 and 116.4 MeV/u,despite of frequency drifts during the experiment.When electron cooling was turned off,the effective vacuum condition experienced by the 116.4 MeV/u^(56)Fe^(26+)ions was determined using amplitude-calibrated spectra,revealing a value of 2×10^(−10)mbar,which is consistent with vacuum gauge readings along the CSRe ring.The method reported herein will be adapted for the next-generation storage ring of the HIAF facility under construction in Huizhou,China.It can also be adapted to other storage ring facilities worldwide to improve precision and enhance lifetime measurements using many ions in the ring.展开更多
Isochronous mass spectrometry(IMS)of heavyion storage rings is a powerful tool for the mass measurements of short-lived nuclei.In IMS experiments,masses are determined through precision measurements of the revolution ...Isochronous mass spectrometry(IMS)of heavyion storage rings is a powerful tool for the mass measurements of short-lived nuclei.In IMS experiments,masses are determined through precision measurements of the revolution times of the ions stored in the ring.However,the revolution times cannot be resolved for particles with nearly the same mass-to-charge(m/q)ratios.To overcome this limitation and to extract the accurate revolution times for such pairs of ion species with very close m/q ratios,in our early work on particle identification,we analyzed the amplitudes of the timing signals from the detector based on the emission of secondary electrons.Here,the previous data analysis method is further improved by considering the signal amplitudes,detection efficiencies,and number of stored ions in the ring.A sensitive Z-dependent parameter is introduced in the data analysis,leading to a better resolution of ^(34)Ar^(18+) and ^(51)Co^(27+) with A/Z=17/9.The mean revolution times of ^(34)Ar^(18+) and ^(51)Co^(27+) are deduced,although their time difference is merely 1.8 ps.The uncorrected,overlapped peak of these ions has a full width at half maximum of 7.7 ps.The mass excess of ^(51)Co was determined to be-27;332e41T keV,which is in agreement with the previous value of-27;342e48T keV.展开更多
The measurement of mass,or equivalently the binding energy,of exotic nuclei has reached the limits of nuclear existence,which are characterized by tiny production cross-sections and short half-lives.The isochronousmod...The measurement of mass,or equivalently the binding energy,of exotic nuclei has reached the limits of nuclear existence,which are characterized by tiny production cross-sections and short half-lives.The isochronousmode of the Spectrometer Ring at the High Intensity heavy-ion Accelerator Facility project in China(HIAF-SRing)offers the capacity for such measurements.However,many factors limit the revolution time resolution of the isochronous mode of the large acceptance HIAF-SRing.Nonlinear field errors as well as fringe fields of the wide aperture dipoles and quadrupoles strongly excite the higher-order aberrations,which negatively affect the revolution time resolution.Moreover,the transverse emittance of the beam is inversely proportional to the revolution time resolution.Their influence is investigated here,and a possible correction scheme with sextupoles and octupoles is shown.With higher-order corrections,a mass resolution of R(FWHM)=1×10^(6),corresponding to a relative revolution time ofσ(T)/T~4.9×10^(-7),is with the isochronous settingγt=1.43 within the momentum acceptance of±0.2%.展开更多
The measurement of the bound-state decay of^(205)Tl at the Experimental Storage Ring(ESR)at GSI,Darmstadt,has recently been reported,with substantial impact on the use of^(205)Pb as an early Solar System chronometer a...The measurement of the bound-state decay of^(205)Tl at the Experimental Storage Ring(ESR)at GSI,Darmstadt,has recently been reported,with substantial impact on the use of^(205)Pb as an early Solar System chronometer and on the low-energy measurement of the solar neutrino spectrum via the LOREX project.Owing to the technical challenges in producing a high-purity^(205)T^(l81+)secondary beam,a robust statistical method was developed to estimate the variation in the contaminant^(205)Pb^(81+)produced in the fragmentation reaction,which was subsequently transmitted and stored in the ESR.Here,we show that Bayesian and Monte Carlo methods produce comparable estimates for the contaminant variation,each with unique advantages and challenges given the complex statistical problems for this experiment.We recommend the adoption of such methods in future experiments that exhibit unknown statistical fluctuations.展开更多
基金supported by the National Key R&D Program of China (No. 2023YFA1606401 and 2018YFA0404401)the Young Scholar of Regional Development,CAS ([2023] 15)+1 种基金Chinese Academy of Sciences Stable Support for Young Teams in Basic Research (No. YSBR-002)Special Fund for Strategic Pilot Technology of Chinese Academy of Sciences (No. XDB34000000)
文摘Schottky mass spectrometry utilizing heavy-ion storage rings is a powerful technique for the precise mass and decay half-life measurements of highly charged ions.Owing to the nondestructive ion detection features of Schottky noise detectors,the number of stored ions in the ring is determined by the peak area in the measured revolution frequency spectrum.Because of their intrinsic amplitude-frequency characteristic(AFC),Schottky detector systems exhibit varying sensitivities at different frequencies.Using low-energy electron-cooled stored ions,a new method is developed to calibrate the AFC curve of the Schottky detector system of the Experimental Cooler Storage Ring(CSRe)storage ring located in Lanzhou,China.Using the amplitude-calibrated frequency spectrum,a notable refinement was observed in the precision of both the peak position and peak area.As a result,the storage lifetimes of the electron-cooled fully ionized^(56)Fe^(26+)ions were determined with high precision at beam energies of 13.7 and 116.4 MeV/u,despite of frequency drifts during the experiment.When electron cooling was turned off,the effective vacuum condition experienced by the 116.4 MeV/u^(56)Fe^(26+)ions was determined using amplitude-calibrated spectra,revealing a value of 2×10^(−10)mbar,which is consistent with vacuum gauge readings along the CSRe ring.The method reported herein will be adapted for the next-generation storage ring of the HIAF facility under construction in Huizhou,China.It can also be adapted to other storage ring facilities worldwide to improve precision and enhance lifetime measurements using many ions in the ring.
基金This work was supported by the National Key R&D Program of China(Nos.2016YFA0400504 and 2018YFA0404401)the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(No.XDB34000000)+4 种基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.11905261,11805032,11975280,and 11605248)the CAS "Light of West China" Program,the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(No.2019M660250)the FRIB-CSC Fellowship,China(No.201704910964)the International Postdoctoral Exchange Fellowship Program 2017 by the Office of China Postdoctoral Council(No.60 Document of OCPC,2017)the European Research Council(ERC)under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme(No.682841 "ASTRUm").
文摘Isochronous mass spectrometry(IMS)of heavyion storage rings is a powerful tool for the mass measurements of short-lived nuclei.In IMS experiments,masses are determined through precision measurements of the revolution times of the ions stored in the ring.However,the revolution times cannot be resolved for particles with nearly the same mass-to-charge(m/q)ratios.To overcome this limitation and to extract the accurate revolution times for such pairs of ion species with very close m/q ratios,in our early work on particle identification,we analyzed the amplitudes of the timing signals from the detector based on the emission of secondary electrons.Here,the previous data analysis method is further improved by considering the signal amplitudes,detection efficiencies,and number of stored ions in the ring.A sensitive Z-dependent parameter is introduced in the data analysis,leading to a better resolution of ^(34)Ar^(18+) and ^(51)Co^(27+) with A/Z=17/9.The mean revolution times of ^(34)Ar^(18+) and ^(51)Co^(27+) are deduced,although their time difference is merely 1.8 ps.The uncorrected,overlapped peak of these ions has a full width at half maximum of 7.7 ps.The mass excess of ^(51)Co was determined to be-27;332e41T keV,which is in agreement with the previous value of-27;342e48T keV.
基金the the National Nature Science Foundation of China(12105333,12135017,12121005,11975280,12205340,12322507,12305126,12305151)。
文摘The measurement of mass,or equivalently the binding energy,of exotic nuclei has reached the limits of nuclear existence,which are characterized by tiny production cross-sections and short half-lives.The isochronousmode of the Spectrometer Ring at the High Intensity heavy-ion Accelerator Facility project in China(HIAF-SRing)offers the capacity for such measurements.However,many factors limit the revolution time resolution of the isochronous mode of the large acceptance HIAF-SRing.Nonlinear field errors as well as fringe fields of the wide aperture dipoles and quadrupoles strongly excite the higher-order aberrations,which negatively affect the revolution time resolution.Moreover,the transverse emittance of the beam is inversely proportional to the revolution time resolution.Their influence is investigated here,and a possible correction scheme with sextupoles and octupoles is shown.With higher-order corrections,a mass resolution of R(FWHM)=1×10^(6),corresponding to a relative revolution time ofσ(T)/T~4.9×10^(-7),is with the isochronous settingγt=1.43 within the momentum acceptance of±0.2%.
基金funding from the European Research Council(ERC)under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme(Grant Agreement No.682841"ASTRUm"and No.654002"ENSAR2")The research of G.Leckenby,I.Dillmann,and C.Griffin was funded by the Canadian Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council(NSERC)via the grant SAPIN-2019-00030+1 种基金J.Glorius,M.S.Sanjari,Yu.A.Litvinov and C.Brandau acknowledge support by the State of Hesse within the Research Cluster ELEMENTS(Project ID 500/10.006)E.Menz and Yu.A.Litvinov acknowledge support by the project"NRW-FAIR",a part of the programme"Netzwerke 2021",an initiative of the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia.R.Gernhäuser acknowledges support by the Excellence Cluster ORIGINS from the German Research Foundation DFG(Excellence Strategy EXC-2094-390783311)。
文摘The measurement of the bound-state decay of^(205)Tl at the Experimental Storage Ring(ESR)at GSI,Darmstadt,has recently been reported,with substantial impact on the use of^(205)Pb as an early Solar System chronometer and on the low-energy measurement of the solar neutrino spectrum via the LOREX project.Owing to the technical challenges in producing a high-purity^(205)T^(l81+)secondary beam,a robust statistical method was developed to estimate the variation in the contaminant^(205)Pb^(81+)produced in the fragmentation reaction,which was subsequently transmitted and stored in the ESR.Here,we show that Bayesian and Monte Carlo methods produce comparable estimates for the contaminant variation,each with unique advantages and challenges given the complex statistical problems for this experiment.We recommend the adoption of such methods in future experiments that exhibit unknown statistical fluctuations.
