EURORIB'15

FAZIA is a modern apparatus based on Si-Si-CsI(Tl) telescopes designed to have excellent particle identification capabilities with relatively low energy thresholds and high efficiency. In order to get low thresholds, pulse shape discrimination of digitized signals will be applied to the first telescope stage. To achieve the desired goals, besides the use of carefully designed and selected...

At the isotope separator facility ISOLDE, the Laser Ion Source and Trap (LIST) unit is now applied routinely for the production of ultra-high purity ion beams of neutron-rich polonium isotopes [1]. The LIST significantly reduces the remaining amount of unwanted surface-ionized contaminants in radioactive ion beams produced by the Resonance Ionization Laser Ion Source (RILIS) [2]. For this...

The discovery of neutrino oscillations has proven neutrinos are massive particles. However, this does not provide information on the type of the neutrino and its mass. An answer to these questions lies in a study of beta transitions, i.e., beta- and double-beta- decays as well as electron and double-electron captures. A crucial parameter in this study is the Q-value of the beta transitions,...

The LPCTrap setup, presently installed at the low energy beam line (LIRAT) of the SPIRAL facility at GANIL, was designed to perform precise beta-neutrino correlation measurements in nuclear beta decays [1]. The radioactive nuclei are confined in a transparent Paul trap, allowing the detection of the recoil ions in coincidence with the beta particles. The beta-neutrino angular correlation...