Separated Oscillatory Fields for High-Precision Penning Trap Mass Spectrometry

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2007-01-19

arxiv.org/abs/nucl-ex/0701027v1

Phys.Rev.Lett.98:162501,2007

Physics

Nuclear Physics

Nuclear Experiment

5 pages, 4 figures, 0 tables

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.162501

Ramsey's method of separated oscillatory fields is applied to the excitation of the cyclotron motion of short-lived ions in a Penning trap to improve the precision of their measured mass. The theoretical description of the extracted ion-cyclotron-resonance line shape is derived out and its correctness demonstrated experimentally by measuring the mass of the short-lived $^{38}$Ca nuclide with an uncertainty of $1.6\cdot 10^{-8}$ using the ISOLTRAP Penning trap mass spectrometer at CERN. The mass value of the superallowed beta-emitter $^{38}$Ca is an important contribution for testing the conserved-vector-current hypothesis of the electroweak interaction. It is shown that the Ramsey method applied to mass measurements yields a statistical uncertainty similar to that obtained by the conventional technique ten times faster.

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