Laboratory

SLOWRI Team

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Laboratory Head
Hironobu ISHIYAMAD.Sci.
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Research Areas

SLOWRI is a universal low-energy RI-beam device at the downstream of BigRIPS at RIBF, which provides a wide variety of short-lived nuclei as high-purity and low-emittance ion beams. SLOWRI consists of two kinds of gas catchers, He gas catcher with RF carpets for ion guide and Ar gas catcher with resonant laser ionization. In 2020, the He gas catcher and a multiple reflection time-of-flight mass spectrograph (MRTOF) were installed at BigRIPS to begin comprehensive mass measurements of unmeasured short-lived nuclei using a low-energy RI beams.

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Research Subject

  1. Development and constraction of the next-generation slow RI-beam facility -- SLOWRI
  2. Precision laser spectroscopy of trapped radioactive Beryllium isotope
  3. Development of a multi-reflection time-of-flight mass spectrograph for precision mass measurements of short-lived nuclei
  4. Development of collinear fast beam apparatus for isotope shift measurements
  5. Development of parasitic slow RI-beam using gas cell and resonance laser ionization scheme

List of Selected Publications

  1. Iimura, S., Rosenbusch, M., Takamine, A., Tsunoda, Y., Wada, M., Chen, S., Hou, D.S., Xian, W., Ishiyama, H., Yan, S., Schury, P., Crawford, H, Doornenbal, P., Hirayama, Y., Ito, Y., Kimura, S., Koiwai, T., Kojima, T.M., Koura, H., Lee, J., Liu, J., Michimasa, S., Miyatake, H., Moon, J.Y., Nishimura, S., Naimi, S., Niwase, T., Odahara, A., Otsuka, T., Paschalis, S., Petri, M., Shimizu, N., Sonoda, T., Suzuki, D., Watanabe, Y.X., Wimmer, K., and Wollnik, H.
    “A new study of the N=32 and N=34 shell gap for Ti and V by the first high-precision MRTOF mass measurements at BigRIPS-SLOWRI”
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 012501 (2023).
  2. Rosenbusch, M., Wada, M., Chen, S., Takamine, A., Iimura, S., Hou, D., Xian, W., Yan, S., Schury, P., Hirayama, Y., Ito, Y., Ishiyama, H., Kimura, S., Kojima, T., Lee, J., Liu, J., Michimasa, S., Miyatake, H., Mukai, M., Moon, J.Y., Nishimura, S., Naiumi, S., Niwase, T., Sonoda, T., Watanabe, Y.X., and Wolnik, H.
    “The new MRTOF mass spectrograph following the ZeroDegree spectrometer at RIKEN's RIBF facility”
    Nucl. Instrum. Methods A 1047,167824 (2023).
  3. Schury, P., Niwase, T., Wada, M., Brionnet, P., Chen, S., Hashimoto, T., Haba, H., Hirayama, Y., Hou, D.S., Iimura, S., Ishiyama, H., Ishizawa, S., Ito, Y., Kaji, D., Kimura, S., Koura,H., Liu, J., Miyatake, H., Moon, J.Y., Morimoto, K., Morita, K., Nagae, D., Rosenbusch, M., Takamine, A., Watanabe, Y.X., Wollnik, H., Xian, W., and Yan, S.X.
    “First high-precision direct determination of the atomic mass of a superheavy nuclide”
    Phys. Rev. C 104, L021304 (2021).
  4. Rosenbusch, M., Wada, M., Schury, P., Ito, Y., Ishiyama, H., Ishizawa, S., Hirayama, Y., Kimura, S., Kojima, T.M., Miyatake, H., Moon, J.Y., Niwase, T., Sonoda, T., Takamine, A., Watanabe, Y.X., and Wollnik, H.
    “A new multi-reflection time-of-flight mass spectrograph for the SLOWRI facility”
    Nucl. Instrum Methods B 463, 184-188, (2020).
  5. Sonoda, T., Katayama, I., Wada, M., Iimura, H., Sonnenschein, V., Iimura, S., Takamine, A., Rosenbusch, M., Kojima, T.M., Ahn, D.S., Fukuca, N., Kubo, T., Nishimura, S., Shimizu, Y., Suzuki, H., Takaeda, H., Tanigaki, M., Tomita, H., Yoshida, K., and Ishiyama, H.
    “Conceptural studey on parastic low-energy RI beam production with in-flight separator BigRIPS and the first stopping examination for high-energy RI beam in the paralstic gas cell”
    Prog. Theor. Exp. Phys. Vol. 2019-11, 113D02, (2019).
  6. Sonoda, T., Iimura, H., Reponen, M., Wada, M., Katayama, I., Sonnenscheine, V., Takamatsu, T., Tomita, H. and Kojima, T.M.
    “The laser and optical system for the RIBF-PALIS experiment”
    Nucl. Instrum. and Methods A 877 118 (2018).
  7. Takamine, A., Wada, M., Okada, K., Ito, Y., Schury, P., Arai, F., Katayama, I., Imamura, K., Ichikawa, Y., Ueno, H., Wollnik, H., and Shutessler, H.A.
    “Towards high precision measurements of nuclear g-factors for the Be isotopes”
    Nucl. Instrum. Methods B 376, 307 (2016).
  8. Wada., M
    “Genealogy of gas cells for low-energy RI-beam production"
    Nucl. Instrm. Meth. B 317, 450 (2013).
  9. Takamine, A., Wada, M., Okada, K., Nakamura, T., Schury, P., Sonoda, T., Lioubimov, V., Iimura, H., Yamazaki, Y., Kanai, Y., Kojima, T.M., Yoshida, A., Kubo, T., Katayama, I., Ohtani, S., Wollnik, H., and Schuessler, H.A.:
    "Isotope shift measurements of 11,9,7Be+"
    Eur. Phys. J. A. 10883-5 (2009).
  10. Takamine, A., Wada, M., Ishida, Y., Nakamura, T., Okada, K., Yamazaki, Y., Kambara, T., Kanai, Y., Kojima, T.M., Nakai, Y., Oshima, N., Yoshida, A., Kubo, T., Ohtani, S., Noda, K., Katayama, I., Hostain, P., Varentsov, V., and Wollnik, H.:
    "Space-charge effect in the catcher gas cell of a rf ion guide"
    Rev. Sci. Instrum. 76, 103503 (2005).