[HTML][HTML] Heavy-ion storage rings and their use in precision experiments with highly charged ions

M Steck, YA Litvinov - Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 2020 - Elsevier
Storage rings have been employed over three decades in various kinds of nuclear and
atomic physics experiments with highly charged ions. Storage ring operation and precision …

Beta decay of highly charged ions

YA Litvinov, F Bosch - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
Beta decay of highly charged ions has attracted much attention in recent years. An obvious
motivation for this research is that stellar nucleosynthesis proceeds at high temperatures …

[HTML][HTML] Disentangling neutrino oscillations

AG Cohen, SL Glashow, Z Ligeti - Physics Letters B, 2009 - Elsevier
The theory underlying neutrino oscillations has been described at length in the literature.
The neutrino state produced by a weak decay is usually portrayed as a linear superposition …

Ab initio calculation of the electron capture spectrum of 163Ho: Auger–Meitner decay into continuum states

M Braß, MW Haverkort - New Journal of Physics, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Determining the electron neutrino mass by electron capture in 163 Ho relies on an accurate
understanding of the differential electron capture nuclear decay rate as a function of the …

[HTML][HTML] New test of modulated electron capture decay of hydrogen-like 142Pm ions: Precision measurement of purely exponential decay

FC Ozturk, B Akkus, D Atanasov, H Beyer, F Bosch… - Physics Letters B, 2019 - Elsevier
An experiment addressing electron capture (EC) decay of hydrogen-like Pm 60+ 142 ions
has been conducted at the experimental storage ring (ESR) at GSI. The decay appears to be …

Oscillations in radioactive exponential decay

TM Semkow, DK Haines, SE Beach, BJ Kilpatrick… - Physics Letters B, 2009 - Elsevier
Several older and recent reports provided evidence for the oscillatory character of the
exponential decay law in radioactive decay and attempted to explain it with basic physics …

Between atomic and nuclear physics: radioactive decays of highly-charged ions

D Atanasov, K Blaum, F Bosch… - Journal of Physics B …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Highly charged radioactive ions can be stored for extended periods of time in storage rings
which allows for precision measurements of their decay modes. The straightforward …

Why a splitting in the final state cannot explain the “GSI oscillations” measured at the GSI Experimental Storage Ring

A Merle - Physical Review C—Nuclear Physics, 2009 - APS
In this article, I provide a pedagogical discussion of the GSI anomaly. Using two different
formulations, namely the intuitive quantum-field-theory language of the second quantized …

Oscillations in the decay law: A possible quantum mechanical explanation of the anomaly in the experiment at the GSI facility

F Giacosa, G Pagliara - Quantum Matter, 2013 - ingentaconnect.com
We study the deviations from the usual exponential decay law for quantum mechanical
systems. We show that simple and physically motivated deviations from the Breit-Wigner …

[HTML][HTML] Could the GSI decay rate oscillations be observed in a standard electron capture decay experiment?

T Faestermann, F Bosch, R Hertenberger, L Maier… - Physics Letters B, 2009 - Elsevier
The electron-capture decay of 180Re has been investigated to search for oscillations in the
decay probability as reported from a recent measurement at GSI, Darmstadt. The production …