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| ISBN: | 9783319071121
3319071122
3319071114
9783319071114
9783319071114
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| Notes: | "Doctoral thesis accepted by the University of Manchester, UK."
Includes bibliographical references.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed August 1, 2014).
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| Summary: | This work details an application of collinear resonance ionization spectroscopy for the separation of short-lived isomeric states and their subsequent study with decay spectroscopy. It reports the successful construction ofa novel decay spectroscopy apparatus that can operate at pressures below 1 x 10^-9 mbar. The method is demonstrated by separating the nuclear ground and isomeric states of 204Fr and performing alpha-decay spectroscopy. An equivalent mass spectrometer would require 4.6 million times as much resolution to achieve the same result. This work unambiguously confirms the existence of a second isomeric state in 204Fr. The author also demonstrates the effectiveness of this method for laser spectroscopy and identification of hyperfine-structure components with energy tagging. This method was successfully used in 202Fr to identify ground and isomeric states. The measurement of 202Fr reported in this thesis demonstrates a factor of 100 improvement in sensitivity compared to state-of-the-art fluorescence techniques. The work reported in this thesis won the author the IOP Nuclear Physics Group Early Career Prize.
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| Other form: | Printed edition: 9783319071114
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| Standard no.: | 10.1007/978-3-319-07112-1
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