Precision mass measurements of short-lived nuclides for nuclear structure studies at TITAN

¹ TRIUMF, 4004 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T 2A3, Canada
² Department of Chemistry, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6, Canada
³ Physik Department E12, Technische Universität München, 85748 Garching, Germany
⁴ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, R3T 2N2, Canada
⁵ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z1, Canada
⁶ Institut für Kernphysik, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, 48149 Münster, Germany
⁷ CSNSM-IN2P3-CNRS, Université de Paris Sud, 91405 Orsay, France
⁸ Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Saupfercheckweg 1, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany

^a e-mail: ankur@triumf.ca
^b Present address: Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
^c Present address: Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
^d Present address: Helmholtz-Institut Mainz, 55128 Mainz, Germany

Published online: 20 March 2014

Abstract

TITAN (TRIUMF’s Ion Trap for Atomic and Nuclear science) at TRIUMF’s rare isotope beam facility ISAC is an advanced Penning trap based mass spectrometer dedicated to precise and accurate mass determinations. An overview of TITAN, the measurement technique and a highlight of recent mass measurements of the short-lived nuclides important to the nuclear structure program at TITAN are presented.