Bulletin of the American Physical Society
APS April Meeting 2019
Volume 64, Number 3
Saturday–Tuesday, April 13–16, 2019; Denver, Colorado
Session B14: Mini-Symposium: Neutron-star mergers and the astrophysical r process
10:45 AM–12:33 PM,
Saturday, April 13, 2019
Sheraton
Room: Plaza Court 3
Sponsoring
Unit:
DNP
Chair: Artemis Spyrou, Michigan State University
Abstract: B14.00003 : The University of Notre Dame Multi-Reflection Time-of-Flight mass spectrometer for the N = 126 beam factory*
11:33 AM–11:45 AM
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Presenter:
Maxime Brodeur
(University of Notre Dame)
Authors:
Maxime Brodeur
(University of Notre Dame)
James M Kelly
(University of Notre Dame)
Biying Liu
(University of Notre Dame)
The production of exotic nuclei at the vicinity of the N = 126 peak of the rapid-neutron capture process as for a long time pose a challenge. A new facility currently under construction at Argonne National Laboratory aims at undertaking the challenge by producing these difficult nuclei via multi-nucleon transfers reactions. The facility will first include a large-volume gas cell to collect and thermalize the reaction products. Then, upon extraction from the gas cell and radio-frequency ion guide, the ion beam will be separated by a high-resolution mass separator magnet and a multi-reflection time-of-flight mass spectrometer (MR-ToF) for the removal of isobaric contamination. This MR-ToF has been built and commissioned in an offline test setup at the University of Notre Dame. The commissioning results and off-line performance of the MR-ToF will be presented.
*This work is supported by the National Science Foundation and the University of Notre Dame.
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