Development of an in-flight optical ConeTrap to measure fundamental nuclear properties in exotic super-asymmetric fission fragments

该项目将使用新颖的离子操纵技术（Paul阱、静电阱和RF冷却器）结合精密激光光谱学测量奇异超不对称裂变碎片的基本核性质该项目将以曼彻斯特为基地，在芬兰伊瓦斯基拉JYFL的IGISOL设施以及可能在ISOLDE进行在线研究，CERN。这项研究将需要重新设计最近建造的静电ConeTrap，并首次使用该设备，以促进高效激光光谱学。然后，将利用所开发的系统通过超精细结构和同位素位移来精确测量核参数。在新的工作中，目标是实现光谱效率在一个数量级高于我们以前已经达到和委托设备能够研究最弱的生产和最高的Z系统在我们的在线同位素分离器。

The project will use novel ion manipulation techniques (Paul traps, electrostatic traps and RF coolers) in conjunction with precision laser spectroscopy to measure fundamental nuclear properties in exotic super-asymmetric fission fragments (and atomic-nuclear processes in ultra-low lying nuclear excited states).The project will be based in Manchester with on-line research conducted at the IGISOL facility, JYFL, Jyvaskyla, Finland and potentially at ISOLDE, CERN. The research will require the redesign of a recently constructed electrostatic ConeTrap and the use of this device, for the first time, to facilitate high efficiency laser spectroscopy. The developed system will then be exploited to make precision measurements of nuclear parameters via the hyperfine structure and isotope shift. In the new work the objective is to achieve spectroscopic efficiencies at an order of magnitude higher than that we have previously attained and commission apparatus capable of studying the most weakly produced and highest Z systems available at our on-line isotope separators.