EMMI workshop: Neutron Matter in Astrophysics: From Neutron Stars to the r-Process

The properties of exotic nuclei are ideally studied in inverse-kinematics experiments at high beam energies using the FRS-LAND facilities at GSI, allowing exclusive measurements of all projectile-like residues following the electromagnetic excitation of the projectile in a high-Z target (Pb). At beam energies of ~500 AMeV electromagnetic excitations are dominated by dipole...

It is important, both for nuclear structure physics and understanding the synthesis of heavy elements in the cosmos, to determine how single-particle states change as we move away from the valley of stability, especially around shell closures. One powerful method to probe single-particle structure of nuclei is to use single-nucleon transfer reactions. With short-lived exotic nuclei, these...

Recent experiments with stored exotic nuclei, that have been performed at the Experimental Storage Ring ESR in Darmstadt, Germany, will be discussed in this contribution. Broad-band Schottky (SMS) and Isochronous (IMS) mass spectrometry are extremely powerful methods for simultaneous measurements of big numbers of nuclear masses in one experiment. The former method is applied to...