Toward precision mass measurements of neutron-rich nuclei relevant to r-process nucleosynthesis

BH Sun, YA Litvinov, I Tanihata, YH Zhang - Frontiers of Physics, 2015 - Springer
The open question of where, when, and how the heavy elements beyond iron enrich our
Universe has triggered a new era in nuclear physics studies. Of all the relevant nuclear …

Coulomb Excitation of and the Strength of the Shell Closure

G Guastalla, DD DiJulio, M Górska, J Cederkäll… - Physical Review Letters, 2013 - APS
A measurement of the reduced transition probability for the excitation of the ground state to
the first 2+ state in Sn 104 has been performed using relativistic Coulomb excitation at GSI …

Scintillation liquids loaded with hafnium oxide nanoparticles for spectral resolution of γ rays

H Zhao, H Yu, C Redding, Z Li, T Chen… - ACS Applied Nano …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Current mainstream spectroscopic scintillators for the detection of high-energy radiation are
based on inorganic crystals and ceramics, which are difficult to scale up. Efforts have been …

Ultrafast Nanocomposite Scintillators Based on Cd-Enhanced CsPbCl3 Nanocrystals in Polymer Matrix

A Erroi, F Carulli, F Cova, I Frank, ML Zaffalon… - ACS Energy …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Lead halide perovskite nanocrystals (LHP-NCs) embedded in polymer matrices are gaining
traction as next-generation radiation detectors. While progress has been made on green …

The Lund–York–Cologne Calorimeter (LYCCA): Concept, design and prototype developments for a FAIR-NUSTAR detector system to discriminate relativistic heavy …

P Golubev, A Wendt, L Scruton, J Taprogge… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2013 - Elsevier
The concept, design and prototype developments for the Lund–York–Cologne CAlorimeter
(LYCCA) is presented. LYCCA is a modular device for the NUclear STructure, Astrophysics …

Plastic scintillation detectors for precision Time-of-Flight measurements of relativistic heavy ions

WJ Lin, JW Zhao, BH Sun, LC He, WP Lin… - Chinese …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Plastic scintillation detectors for Time-of-Flight (TOF) measurements are almost essential for
event-by-event identification of relativistic rare isotopes. In this work, a pair of plastic …

Reaching time resolution of less than 10 ps with plastic scintillation detectors

JW Zhao, BH Sun, I Tanihata, S Terashima… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2016 - Elsevier
Timing-pick up detectors with excellent timing resolutions are essential in many modern
nuclear physics experiments. Aiming to develop a Time-Of-Flight system with precision …

On the Road to FAIR: 1st Operation of AGATA in PreSPEC at GSI

N Pietralla, M Reese, ML Cortes, F Ameil… - EPJ Web of …, 2014 - epj-conferences.org
The Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR), under construction at Darmstadt will
provide intense relativistic beams of exotic nuclei at its Superconducting-FRagment …

A beam–beam monitoring detector for the MPD experiment at NICA

M Alvarado, A Ayala, MA Ayala-Torres… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The Multi-Purpose Detector (MPD) is to be installed at the Nuclotron Ion Collider
fAcility (NICA) of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR). Its main goal is to study the …

Lifetime measurement of neutron-rich even-even molybdenum isotopes

D Ralet, S Pietri, T Rodríguez, M Alaqeel, T Alexander… - Physical Review C, 2017 - APS
Background: In the neutron-rich A≈ 100 mass region, rapid shape changes as a function of
nucleon number as well as coexistence of prolate, oblate, and triaxial shapes are predicted …