Recent trends in the determination of nuclear masses

D Lunney, JM Pearson, C Thibault - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2003 - APS
The mass of the nucleus, through its binding energy, continues to be of capital importance
not only for various aspects of nuclear physics, but also for other branches of physics …

Neutrino mass limit from tritium β decay

EW Otten, C Weinheimer - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper reviews recent experiments on tritium β-spectroscopy searching for the absolute
value of the electron neutrino mass m (ν e). By the use of dedicated electrostatic filters with …

CODATA recommended values of the fundamental physical constants: 2002

PJ Mohr, BN Taylor - Reviews of modern physics, 2005 - APS
This paper gives the 2002 self-consistent set of values of the basic constants and conversion
factors of physics and chemistry recommended by the Committee on Data for Science and …

From direct to absolute mass measurements: A study of the accuracy of ISOLTRAP

A Kellerbauer, K Blaum, G Bollen, F Herfurth… - The European Physical …, 2003 - Springer
For a detailed study of the accuracy of the Penning trap mass spectrometer ISOLTRAP all
expected sources of uncertainty were investigated with respect to their contributions to the …

Penning-trap mass measurement of helium-4

S Sasidharan, O Bezrodnova, S Rau, W Quint… - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
Light-ion trap (LIONTRAP), a high-precision Penning-trap mass spectrometer, was used to
determine the atomic mass of He 4. Here, we report a 12 parts-per-trillion measurement of …

SMILETRAP—A Penning trap facility for precision mass measurements using highly charged ions

I Bergström, C Carlberg, T Fritioff, G Douysset… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2002 - Elsevier
The precision of mass measurements in a Penning trap increases linearly with the charge of
the ion. Therefore we have attached a Penning trap, named SMILETRAP, to the electron …

High-precision atomic mass measurements for fundamental constants

EG Myers - Atoms, 2019 - mdpi.com
Atomic mass measurements are essential for obtaining several of the fundamental
constants. The most precise atomic mass measurements, at the 10− 10 level of precision or …

On the Q-value of the tritium β-decay

S Nagy, T Fritioff, M Björkhage, I Bergström… - Europhysics …, 2006 - iopscience.iop.org
We report here the atomic masses of 3 H and 3 He determined by using the Penning trap
mass spectrometer Smiletrap. The measurements are based on cyclotron frequency …

Ultraprecise Atomic Mass Measurement of the Particle and

RS Van Dyck Jr, SL Zafonte, S Van Liew, DB Pinegar… - Physical review …, 2004 - APS
The atomic masses of the α particle and He 4 have been measured by means of a Penning
trap<? format?> mass spectrometer which utilizes a frequency-shift detector to observe …

Determination of the proton mass from a measurement of the cyclotron frequencies of and in a Penning trap

A Solders, I Bergström, S Nagy, M Suhonen… - Physical Review A …, 2008 - APS
We determine the cyclotron frequency ratio of H 2+ and D+, applying the two-pulse Ramsey-
excitation technique in the Penning-trap mass spectrometer SMILETRAP. The final result …