1. Mass and Half-Life Measurements of Stored Exotic Nuclei
Yu.A. Litvinov, Hirschegg

2. Present Knowledge of Atomic Masses

3. Experimental facility at GSI
Highly-Charged Ions
In-Flight Separation
Cocktail or Monoisotopic Beams

4. Schottky Mass Spectrometry (SMS)

5. Broad-band Schottky frequency spectra

6. Measured Mass Surface About 1/3 of all known masses
were covered in one experiment
Typical mass accuracy
Mass resolving power reached
275 new masses determined
More than 300 improved values
Yu.A. Litvinov et al., Nucl. Phys. A756 (2005) 3

7. Predictive Powers of Mass Models

8. Two new SMS experiments
Identification, Mass
and Half-life values
in one experiment

9. Isohronous Mass Spectrometry (IMS)

10. Time-of-Flight Spectra
m/q range is

11. for several mass-to-charge ratios
Isochronicity curves
for several mass-to-charge ratios

12. Improved resolving power

13. 238U Fission Fragments
M. Matos, PhD Thesis, JLU Giessen 2004

14. Predictive Powers of Mass Models
H. Geissel, Yu.A. Litvinov et al, Nucl. Phys. A746 (2004) 150c

15. Predictive Powers of Mass Models

16. The FAIR Project GSI today SIS 100 SIS 300 SIS18 Upgrade Beamlines CBM
UNILAC
SIS
FRS
ESR
HESR
Super
NESR CR
RESR
SIS 100
SIS 300
GSI today
SIS18 Upgrade
Beamlines
CBM
Antiproton Production Target
Plasma Phys.
Atom.Phys.
PANDA
El.Cooler
High En.
Expt.
PAX/ASSIA
Low En. Expt.
FLAIR
NESR Expts

17. Isomeric beams, LIfetimes, and MAssesΔv v
→ 0

18. Where do we stand now? And where to go?

19. Direct Mass and Half-life Measurements
F. Attallah, G. Audi, K. Beckert, P. Beller, F. Bosch, D. Boutin, T. Buervenich, R.S. Chakrawarthy, L. Chen, D. Cullen, T. Faestermann, M. Falch,
B. Franczak, B. Franzke, H.-Geissel, M. Hausmann, M. Hellström, G. Jones,
E. Kaza, Th. Kerscher, P. Kienle, O. Klepper, H.-J. Kluge, C. Kozhuharov,
K.-L. Kratz, R. Knöbel, K.E.G. Löbner, S.A. Litvinov, Yu.A. Litvinov, Z. Liu,
M. Matoš, L. Maier, G. Münzenberg, F. Nolden, Yu.N. Novikov,
T. Ohtsubo, A. Ostrowski, A. Ozawa, Z. Patyk, B. Pfeiffer, W.R. Plass,
Z. Podolyak, M. Portillo, T. Radon, H. Schatz, C. Scheidenberger,
M. Shindo, V. Shishkin, J. Stadlmann, M. Steck, K. Sümmerer, T. Suzuki,
M.B. Trzhakovskaya, S. Typel, D.J. Vieira, G. Vorobjev,
P.M. Walker, H. Weick, S. Williams, M. Winkler, H. Wollnik, T. Yamaguchi, and
The FRS-ESR Collaboration