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Xu, H S

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DOE OSTI2011

Mass Measurements of Proton-rich Nuclides at the Cooler Storage Ring at IMP

Recent results and progress of mass measurements of proton-rich nuclei using isochronous mass spectrometry (IMS) are reported. The nuclei under investigation were produced via fragmentation of relativistic energy heavy ions of {sup 78}Kr and {sup 58}Ni. After in-flight separation by the fragment separator RIBLL-2, the nuclei were injected and stored in the experimental storage ring CSRe, and their masses were determined from measurements of the revolution times. The impact of these measurements on the stellar nucleosynthesis in the rp-process is discussed.

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DOE OSTI2011

Recent experimental results of two-proton correlated emission from the excited states of {sup 17,18}Ne and {sup 28,29}S

Two-proton emissions from the excited states of {sup 17,18}Ne and {sup 28,29}S were investigated by the radioactive beams bombarding on the {sup 197}Au target via the Coulomb excitation. The complete-kinematics measurements were actualized by the stacks of silicon-strip detectors and CsI+PIN array detectors. The invariant mass of final systems as well as the relative momentum, opening angle, and relative energy of the two emitted protons were reconstructed under the framework of relativistic kinematics. The mechanisms of two-proton emission were analyzed in a simple schematic model. With the help of Monte-Carlo simulations, the two protons emitted from the 6.15 MeV excited state of {sup 18}Ne and the excited states around 10 MeV of {sup 29}S, respectively, exhibit prominent features of {sup 2}He decay. While for the other states, no obvious diproton emissions were observed.

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DOE OSTI2011

Direct Mass Measurements of Short-Lived A=2Z-1 Nuclides {sup 63}Ge, {sup 65}As, {sup 67}Se, and {sup 71}Kr and Their Impact on Nucleosynthesis in the rp Process

Mass excesses of short-lived A=2Z-1 nuclei {sup 63}Ge, {sup 65}As, {sup 67}Se, and {sup 71}Kr have been directly measured to be -46 921(37), -46 937(85), -46 580(67), and -46 320(141) keV, respectively. The deduced proton separation energy of -90(85) keV for {sup 65}As shows that this nucleus is only slightly proton unbound. X-ray burst model calculations with the new mass excess of {sup 65}As suggest that the majority of the reaction flow passes through {sup 64}Ge via proton capture, indicating that {sup 64}Ge is not a significant rp-process waiting point.

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DOE OSTI2010

Observation of two-{alpha} emission from high-lying excited states of {sup 18}Ne by complete-kinematics measurements

Two-{alpha} emission from high-lying excited states of {sup 18}Ne was studied by complete-kinematics measurements. The {sup 18}Ne beam at the energy of 51.8 MeV/u was bombarding a {sup 197}Au target to populate the excited states via Coulomb excitation. Products of two-{alpha} emission, {sup 10}C-{alpha}-{alpha}, were measured by an array of silicon strip detectors and a CsI + PIN telescope. With the help of Monte Carlo simulations, the experimental results show the characteristics of sequential two-{alpha} emission via {sup 14}O excited states. Sequential two-{alpha} and two-proton emissions from {sup 18}Ne via one-particle daughter states are compared and the distinction of the opening angles of these two modes originates from the difference of the mass ratio of emitted particles to daughter nuclei.

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DOE OSTI2010

Investigation of two-proton emission from excited states of the odd-Z nucleus {sup 28}P by complete-kinematics measurements

An experiment to study exotic two-proton emission from excited levels of the odd-Z nucleus {sup 28}P was performed at the National Laboratory of Heavy Ion Research-Radioactive Ion Beam Line (HIRFL-RIBLL) facility. The projectile {sup 28}P at the energy of 46.5 MeV/u was bombarding a {sup 197}Au target to populate the excited states via Coulomb excitation. Complete-kinematics measurements were realized by the array of silicon strip detectors and the CsI+PIN telescope. Two-proton events were selected and the relativistic-kinematics reconstruction was carried out. The spectrum of relative momentum and opening angle between two protons was deduced from Monte Carlo simulations. Experimental results show that two-proton emission from {sup 28}P excited states less than 17.0 MeV is mainly two-body sequential emission or three-body simultaneous decay in phase space. The present simulations cannot distinguish these two decay modes. No obvious diproton emission was found.

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DOE OSTI2010

Progress on the RFQ1L and LPT

The SHANS spectrometer is under construction in the Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Science. The RFQ cooler and buncher RFQ1L is one of the key devices in the SHANS. To perform direct mass measurement, the Lanzhou Penning Trap LPT is also under construction. In this symposium, the principle of the SHANS, the status of RFQ1L and LPT and some primary test results will be reported.

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DOE OSTI2010

Nuclear physics program at HIRFL

With the commissioning of HIRFL-CSR, HIRFL can provide heavy ion beams with energy covering the range of several MeV/u to 1 GeV/u. In this talk, the experiments on nuclear physics at different energies to be carried out with different experimental setups at HIRFL will be introduced.

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