SMI-2023: 14th International Conference on Stopping and Manipulation of Ions and Related Topics

Since 2010, the CARIBU facility at Argonne National Laboratory’s ATLAS facility has provided hundreds of neutron-rich isotopes for study. CARIBU delivers beams of these isotopes by first thermalizing the $^{252}$Cf spontaneous fission products inside a gas catcher system, then using an RFQ ion guide to direct the beam towards an isobar separator, an RFQ ion buncher, and finally an MR-TOF. ...

The production of exotic nuclei at the vicinity of the last abundance peak of the rapid-neutron capture (r-) process as for a long time pose a challenge. A new facility, called the N=126 Factory is currently under construction at Argonne National Laboratory and aims at undertaking this challenge by producing these exotic nuclei via multi-nucleon transfers reactions. The facility will first...

Multi-layer printed circuit boards (PCBs) are dielectric substrates with a thin metal layer glued together. With the current PCB manufacturing processes, metallic 2D planar structures can be tailored with fine resolution (<75 um) at a relatively low cost. These structures can be used to transport ions by applying the proper potential to the different planar electrodes. There is a wide variety...

The Superallowed Transition Beta-Neutrino Decay Ion Coincidence Trap (St. Benedict) is currently under construction at the Nuclear Science Laboratory (NSL) at the University of Notre Dame. It aims to measure the beta-neutrino angular correlation parameter for superallowed mixed mirror beta decays. Measurements of this kind offer unique insight into the electroweak part of the Standard Model...