基于HIRFL-CSR测量丰中子重核质量的建议

丰中子重核区有大量原子核质量未知,迫切需要实验测量。我们建议,利用兰州重离子加速器研究装置HIRFL-CSR上的等时性质谱术,高精度测量204Pt等丰中子重核的质量。CSR质量测量实验中,在目标核产额尽可能高的前提下,需要每次注入都有多个离子同时储存到实验环CSRe中,才能针对逐次注入修正磁场晃动的影响,得到高精度测量结果。但在丰中子核区,当目标核产生截面非常低时,每次注入能储存到环中的离子数目太少。为了解决这个问题,我们提出了一种"混合厚度靶"的方法,在不明显改变目标核产额的情况下,显著增加同时储存在CSRe中的离子数,满足实验要求。模拟计算表明,在CSRe测量丰中子重核质量是可行的,并推荐了实验的设置。     

储存环HIAF-SRing等时性模式的非线性磁场影响研究

高精度环形谱仪SRing（Spectrometer Ring）是强流重离子加速器装置（HIAF）的重要组成部分,其等时性模式为远离β稳定线的短寿命原子核质量和寿命的精确测量提供国际领先的科研条件。为了扩大短寿命原子核质量测量精度和范围,SRing等时性模式设计了两种光学:γ_t=1.43和1.67。质量分辨是衡量等时性储存环的最重要参数。二极磁铁的高阶场以及磁铁的边缘场能强烈地引起束流光学高阶畸变,对质量分辨产生影响,因此需要高极磁铁对其进行校正。介绍了SRing等时性模式的线性计算,对非线性磁场的影响进行了详细研究。应用六极磁铁和八极磁铁对非线性场和发射度的影响进行了校正后,离子的循环时间标准偏差σ（T）/T达到3.5×10-7,质量分辨△m/m达到1×106。The isochronous mode of the Spectrometer Ring at the High Intensity heavy-ion Accelerator Facility (HIAF) project in China offers the capacity of measuring the mass and half-life of short-lived nuclides. The transition energy settings of the SRing are 1.43 and 1.67, which have been calculated in the same injection scheme. The resolution of mass or revolution time is the most important parameter of the isochronous mode design of a storage ring. The nonlinear magnetic field errors, including high-order magnet field of dipole, fringe field of magnets, have strongly effect to the resolution of revolution time. High-order corrections are required to improve the resolution of revolution time and mass. In this paper, the SRing linear isochronous optical were shown. The influence of nonlinear magnetic field errors on the revolution time resolving power were investigated. With 3 sextupole families and 1 octupole family corrections, the relative variation of revolution time reaches 4.6×10-7 with the momentum spread of ±0.2%. The relation of the relative standard revolution time deviation σ(T)/T and revolution turns was researched. With corrections of high-order isochronous condition and emittance influence by 3 sextupole families and 1 octupole family, one can reach a resolution of up to σ(T)/T=3.5×10-7, which corresponds to the mass resolution of △m/m=1×106.     

A pilot experiment for mass measurement at CSRe

A pilot experiment of mass measurement was performed at CSRe with the method of isochronous mass spectrometry. The secondary fragments produced via RIBLL2 with the primary beam of 400 MeV/u 36Ar delivered by CSRm were injected into CSRe. The revolution periods of the stored ions, which depend on the mass-to-charge ratios of the stored ions, were measured with a time-of-flight detector system. The results show that the mass resolution around 8×10-6 for Δm/m is achieved.     

Shell Evolution Study for New Magic Number N =32 via Isochronous Mass Spectrometry

Recent results and progress of mass measurements of neutron-rich nuclei utilizing Isochronous Mass Spectrometry (IMS) based on the HIRFL-CSR complex at Lanzhou are reported. The nuclei of interest were produced through projectile fragmentation of primary 86Kr ions at a realistic energy of 460.65 MeV/u. After in-flight separation by the fragment separator RIBLL2, the fragments were injected and stored in the experimental storage ring CSRe, and their masses were determined from measurements of their revolution times. The re-determined masses were compared and evaluated with other mass measurements, and the impact of these evaluated masses on the shell evolution study is discussed.     

A new experimental approach for isochronous mass measurements of short-lived exotic nuclei with the FRS-ESR facility

Projectile fragments separated in flight with the FRS have been injected into the storage ring ESR. Operating the ESR in the isochronous mode has enabled high-resolution mass measurements of short-lived isotopes. Already in our pilot experiments the Isochronous Mass Spectrometry (IMS) has provided accurate results for a restricted isotope range in the neighborhood of a selected isotope characterized by the best isochronous condition. In the present experiment this restriction has been overcome by precise external magnetic rigidity determination (1.5·10^–4) at the dispersive midplane of the FRS. In this way the mass resolving power for neutron-rich fission fragments covering a large mass-over-charge ratio in one spectrum has been improved by up to one order of magnitude and the accuracy by more than a factor of two.     

The First Isochronous Mass Measurements at CSRe

With the commissioning of the Cooler Storage Ring at the Heavy Ion Research Facility in Lanzhou (HIRFL-CSR),a pilot experiment operating the CSRe in isochronous mode to test the power of HIRFL-CSR for measuring the mass of the short-lived nucleus was performed in December of 2007.The fragments with A/q=2 of ~(36) Ar were injected into CSRe and their revolution frequencies were measured with a fast time pick-up detector with a thin foil in the circulating path of the ions.The preliminary result is presented.The result shows the potential of CSRe for mass measurements of short-lived nuclei.     

等时性质量谱仪中N=Z核质量测量的方法探索

N=Z核的质量数据对于研究rp-和νp-过程至关重要。此外,N=Z原子核的质量数据将会帮助我们解决与核结构有关的许多关键问题。结合碎片分离器的等时性质谱仪（Isochronous mass spectrometry,IMS）是十分快速有效而且高分辨的质量测量工具。由于N=Z核的m/q值非常接近,目前国际上的储存环质量谱仪CSRe/IMP和ESR/GSI还无法实现对N=Z核运用飞行时间谱进行鉴别,因而无法对它们进行质量测量。在日本理化学研究所的仁科加速器中心新建了专用的等时性质谱仪（IMS）,即稀有放射性同位素储存环"Rare-RI Ring"（R3）,以确定短寿命的放射性原子核的质量,其目标质量相对精度为10-6。R3质谱仪与高分辨的碎片分离器BigRIPS的组合,运用束流线的高分辨的离子鉴别,使得R3上的IMS方法对N=Z核进行质量测量成为可能。本文设计了专用的等时性束流光学设置,模拟了124Xe的主束经过碎裂反应产生的N=Z核在束流线中穿过各焦平面的径迹、能量、速度等信息,同时检验了这些次级束在环内的飞行时间相对于动量的变化关系。模拟的结果表明:当储存环的等时性光学设置在某一个N=Z核时,所有其它N=Z核在环内的回旋时间也与动量弥散无关,说明了这些核也满足等时性条件。基于N=Z核的这种等时性的特点,本文对R3上刻度N=Z核的方法也进行了讨论。     

HIRFL-CSR上等时性质量测量进展

基于兰州重离子研究装置冷却储存环(HIRFL-CSR)发展了等时性质谱术(Isochronous mass spectrometry，IMS)，高精度测量了一批短寿命原子核的质量并研究了核结构和核天体领域的相关物理问题。本文综述了IMS实验的原理和步骤，重点介绍了目前正在发展的双TOF探测器谱仪。利用双TOF质量谱仪在测量离子回旋周期的同时测量了离子的速度，用来修正实验结果，可以在很宽的动量接收度内实现高质量分辨，并消除离子动量分散带来的系统误差。双TOF等时性质谱术是全新的概念，需要针对性开发相关实验技术。我们建立了基于CSRe的模拟平台，研制了高性能TOF探测器并安装在CSRe直线段，进行了在线束流测试，发展了新的束流光学设置并进行优化，开发了实验数据处理方法并在做进一步优化，并对下一步工作进行了展望。     

全剥离离子94mRu44+的衰变研究

在兰州重离子加速器冷却储存环（HIRFL-CSR）上,用等时性质量谱仪首次研究了百微秒量级全剥离离子94mRu44+的衰变。94mRu44+由初级束流112Sn轰击Be靶产生,经过放射性束流线RIBLL2的筛选后注入到等时性设置的实验环CSRe中,并利用安装在实验环中的飞行时间探测器测量离子在CSRe中的循环周期。94mRu44+退激引起的质量改变会带来其循环周期的变化,由此直接观测到了94mRu44+退激到基态的过程。确定了本次实验中衰变事例探测的灵敏区间,并讨论了衰变发生时刻的测量精度。同时,测量了短寿命核素94mRu44+的质量,其半衰期约为100 μs,这是目前储存环质量谱仪测量的最短寿命核素的质量。The decay of the fully stripped ion 94mRu44+ in the order of one hundred microseconds has been studied for the first time by using the Isochronous Mass Spectrometry (IMS) at the HIRFL-CSR facility in Lanzhou. 94mRu44+ was produced via projectile fragmentation of a 112Sn primary beam bombarding on a 9Be production target. After the in-flight separation with RIBLL2, the ions were injected into the experimental ring (CSRe) and then stored there. The revolution times of the stored ions were measured by a Time-of-Flight (TOF) detector. Due to the mass change of a 94mRu44+ ion caused by its de-excitation to the ground state, hence the revolution time change, the decay process of 94mRu44+ could be directly observed in the CSRe. The sensitive window for detection of the decay events and the measurement precision of the decay time have been determined in this work. At the same time, we measured the mass of short-lived 94mRu44+ with the half-life about one hundred microseconds, which is the shortest among nuclides that have been studied by using storage-ring mass-spectrometry.     

缺中子核素101In低位同核异能态的首次观测

在兰州重离子加速器冷却储存环（HIRFL-CSR）上,用初级束流112Sn35+轰击了靶厚约10 mm的Be靶,产生了101In的基态和低位同核异能态。这些实验产生的碎片每25 s经过放射性束流线RIBLL2的筛选后注入到实验环CSRe中,利用飞行时间探测器测量离子在CSRe中的回旋周期。在此次实验中,磁场晃动会导致离子在环内的循环周期发生改变,传统的离子鉴别方法难以完成大部分离子的鉴别。通过发展和运用单次注入离子鉴别这一新的离子鉴别方法,有效地消除了磁场晃动对于离子鉴别的影响,并清楚地将101In基态和低位同核异能态鉴别出来,从而首次在实验中观测到101In的低位同核异能态。实验得到的激发能与理论外推值在112 keV的误差范围内一致,其低位同核异能态的寿命大于200 μs。Isochronous mass spectrometry has been applied to 112Sn projectile fragments at the HIRFL-CSR facility in Lanzhou. To produce short-lived nuclei of interest, we used projectile fragmentation of 112Sn35+ primary beams in a~10 mm thick 9Be production target. The fragments were selected and analyzed by RIBLL2 and injected into the experimental storage ring(CSRe) every 25 s. To measure revolution times of stored ions,we used a Time-Of-Flight detector installed in CSRe. A new particle identification method was developed to distinguish ions on the measured revolution time spectrum for each injection. Based on this method, the shifts of the revolution time due to instable dipole magnet fields can be corrected and the ground and isomeric states of 101In have been well-resolved. The measured excitation energy is consistent with the theoretical value in the error range of 112 keV. The lifetime of the isomeric states of 101In is more than 200 μs.     

Numerical Study of Instabiities in Magnetized Inhomogeneous Plasmas under the Effect of Ionization

Influence of ionization is studied on two stream instability (TSI) in an inhomogeneous plasma in the presence of obliquely applied magnetic field. In addition to the usual TSI, a new type of instability is found to occur in this system, which is driven by the magnetic field and survives for relatively longer wavelength of oscillations. The growth rates of both the instabilities are enhanced by the magnetic field but their magnitudes attain a minimum value at certain angles of the wave propagation depending upon the wavelength of oscillations. At a critical value of ionization rate there is a sudden fall in the growth of both the instabilities, the reason of which is understood as the Landau damping. A further enhancement in the ionization suppresses the usual TSI whereas the magnetic field‐driven instability attains much lower growth. This new type of instability grows faster in the plasma having heavier ions, but shows a weak dependence on the charge of the ions. (© 2016 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Secondary electron time detector for mass measurements at CSRe

The Isochronous Mass Spectrometry is a high accurate mass spectrometer. A secondary electrons time detector has been developed and used for mass measurements. Secondary electrons from a thin carbon foil are accelerated by an electric field and deffected 180° by a magnetic field onto a micro-channel plate. The time detector has been tested with alpha particles and a time resolution of 197 ps (FWHM) was obtained in the laboratory. A mass resolution around 8×10-6 for m/m was achieved by using this time detector in a pilot mass measurement experiment.     

核素等时性质量测量实验中一种基于离子速度纯化次级束的方法

等时性质量谱仪（Isochronous Mass Spectrometry,IMS）是测量短寿命核素质量的有效实验装置。在IMS核素质量测量实验过程中,目标核素通过弹核碎裂反应产生,并被次级束流线分离、传输后注入到储存环内。由于远离稳定线的目标核素产额非常低,经常伴随大量杂质核素产生,这些杂质离子会加重飞行时间探测器（Time of Flight,TOF）系统的工作负担。在HIRFL-CSR利用IMS进行核素质量测量实验过程中,发展了一种进一步纯化筛选次级离子的方法,以减轻TOF系统的工作负担。基于次级离子在束流线中飞行速度的差异性,利用HIRFL-CSR踢轨磁铁（Kicker）系统,调节次级束流注入CSRe的时间,使次级离子得到进一步筛选和纯化后注入到CSRe内。在实验中,我们测试并验证了该方法的可行性,并讨论了它在纯化次级束流方面的作用。The isochronous Mass Spectrometry (IMS) is a powerful experimental instrument for measuring masses of short-lived nuclides.In the IMS,the nuclides of interest are produced via the projectile fragmentation reaction,then injected into the storage ring after the in-flight separation with beam line.The yields of the nuclides of interest are usually very small accompanying a huge amount of contaminant nuclides,aggravating the load of time-of-flight (TOF) detector.In the IMS nuclear mass measurement experiment conducted at the HIRFL-CSR,we developed a method of purifying the secondary beam fragments to ease the burden of the TOF detector,which is based on the differences of the ions' velocities in the beam line and realized by adjusting the injection time of secondary fragments using the Kicker system of the HIRFL-CSR.We tested and verified the method in an online experiment,and its performance is discussed in this paper.     

Two-body beta decay of stored few-electron ions

The combination of the projectile fragment separator FRS and the cooler-storage ring ESR at the accelerator facility of GSI Darmstadt offers the unique opportunity to study beta decay of stored highly-charged ions. Basic nuclear properties such as masses and half-lives are measured by applying the mass- and time-resolved Schottky Mass Spectrometry (SMS). The relative mass-to-charge ratio is directly correlated to the relative revolution frequency. The SMS is sensitive to single stored ions and the decay of each stored ion can be precisely determine by steady monitoring of the corresponding revolution frequencies. On this basis the single particle decay-spectroscopy has been developed which allows for an unambiguous time-resolved and background-free identification of a certain decay branch. In this contribution we discuss experiments on the orbital electron capture (EC) of radioactive ions in the ESR. Fully ionized, hydrogen- and helium-like ¹⁴⁰Pr and ¹⁴²Pm ions have been selected for these studies. These nuclei decay to stable daughter nuclei via either the three-body ?? ^?+?- or the two-body EC-decay by a single allowed Gamow?CTeller (1^?+? ??0^?+?) transition.     

HIAF中环形质量谱仪SRing的线性设计

为了精确测量短寿命原子核质量,提出了在强流重离子加速器装置(HIAF)上建造高精度环形质量谱仪SRing。SRing长188.7 m,最大设计磁刚度为1 3 T·m,主要由磁聚焦结构、注入系统、引出系统、随机冷却以及探测系统等组成。SRing将运行在等时性模式和收集模式下用于短寿命原子核质量的精确测量和放射性次级束流收集并纯化。详细介绍了SRing的线性光学设计,并给出两种模式下的光学设计、注入及引出系统的设计等,设计参数优化完毕后,机器测量精度有望提高到10~6。     

Design of a magnetic system for an MCC 30/15 cyclotron and field formation with movable shims

To accelerate ions with different charge-to-mass ratios, isochronous dependences of the magnetic field that differ both in the mean value of the field and in its spatial distribution are needed. An approach to configuring such a field in isochronous cyclotrons using magnetic shims is suggested. Field maps obtained experimentally and via computer simulation to accelerate negative hydrogen and deuteron ions in an MCC 30/15 cyclotron intended for medical purposes are presented. The cyclotron was designed and fabricated in 2007–2009 in NIIEFA (St. Petersburg, Russia) and delivered to the University of Jyväskylä (Finland).     

Crystal lattice quantum computer

31 P nucleus can be used to represent a quantum bit (‘qubit’) with a relatively long relaxation time. In a CeP crystal lattice, ³¹P nuclei are periodically situated in three dimensions at distances of about 6 Å. The application of a static magnetic field gradient in one direction causes differences in the Zeemanfrequencies of separate nuclei. This allows thousands of distinct qubits to be individually addressed. Initializations of the qubits can be done efficiently by the Pound–Overhauser double resonance effect on the nuclear spins and the antiferromagnetically ordered 4f electron spins of cerium ions. Logic operations can be performed by simple pulse sequences, and computational results after logic operations can be measured by the nuclear magnetic resonance of neighboring nuclei, or the electron resonance of neighboring 4f electrons of cerium ions. Received: 26 October 1998/Accepted: 29 October 1998     

RF-coupling and cooling techniques of stored heavy ions

A tandem Penning trap system, the ISOLTRAP, is now used at the on-line mass separator ISOLDE at CERN, Geneva, for accurate mass measurements of short-lived nuclei. The mass of the stored ions is measured by the determination of the cyclotron frequency _c=qB/m in theB=6 T magnetic field of the trap. A new technique has been developed and implemented to allow reliable high-efficiency loading of the trap with radioactive heavy ions.     

Laser spectroscopy on molecular beam with a time-of-flight mass spectrometer operating in a strong magnetic field

Experimental set-up for studying effects of a strong magnetic field on a structure and a decay dynamics of molecules, was designed and constructed. A vacuum chamber, in which a molecular beam propagated, was mounted in a bore of a superconducting magnet. Laser light crossed the molecular beam in the magnetic field and excited the molecules. Fragment or parent ions produced through sequential decay processes, were extracted by an electric field parallel to the magnetic field and detected by a microchannel plate. By measuring the time-of-flight from the photo-excitation to the ion-detection, a species of ions —mass and charge state— was identified. A performance of the set-up was demonstrated using the resonance enhanced multiphoton ionization process through the X²Π-A²Σ⁺ transition of nitric oxide (NO) molecules. A mass resolution m/Δm ≥180±6 was obtained in the field up to 10 T. This was the first successful result demonstrating the sufficient mass resolution obtained by the time-of-flight technique in the strong magnetic field up to 10 T. Parent NO⁺ ions were selectively detected by the mass spectrometer and the ion current was measured as a function of the frequency of the laser light. Rotational transition lines were measured with a sufficient S/N ratio in the field up to 10 T.     

HIAF-SRing的等时性模式光学设计

高精度环形谱仪SRing作为HIAF装置的核心之一,是获取高品质放射性次级束,并将束流用于加速器技术研究、原子物理及核物理实验的关键设备。SRing有三种运行模式:等时性模式、正常模式与内靶模式。等时性模式下,SRing运行在特殊线性光学设置下,可以精确测量寿命低至几十微秒的原子核的质量。介绍SRing等时性模式的线性光学及高阶项校正的设计方案。在使用程序GICOSY进行等时性高阶项校正数值计算后,将得到的光学传输矩阵输入到程序MOCADI进行粒子跟踪模拟。以γ_t=1.43的等时性模式为例,SRing的动量接收度为±0.20%,粒子跟踪结果显示,在仅满足一阶等时性条件时SRing的质量分辨能力R=1.6×104。在保证动量接收度不变的前提下,考虑了等时性高阶项校正后SRing的质量分辨能力提高到R=1.2×106,达到设计要求。The Spectrometer Ring, as the most important experiment terminal of the High Intensity heavy-ion Accelerator Facility (HIAF) project, is a key device to obtain high-quality radioactive ion beams (RIBs) for atomic physics, nuclear physics experiments and accelerator technology researches. Three operation modes including the isochronous mode, the normal mode and the internal target mode, have been designed for the SRing. In the isochronous mode, the SRing operates under a special ion optics and could be used for precision mass measurement of short-lived nuclei with half-life shorter than several tens of microseconds. This study aims to design the ion optics for the isochronous mode and improve the mass resolving power of the SRing with higher-order ion-optical correction scheme for isochronism while preserve a large momentum acceptance of SRing. The ion optics and the higher-order correction for the isochronous mode are calculated with the code MAD-X and GICOSY respectively. Three ion optics with γ_t=1.43, 1.67, 1.83 settings have been calculated. The code MCOADI which utilizes the matrixes generated by the code GICOSY is used for particles tracking to verify the correction results. For the ion-optical setting of γ_t=1.43 with a momentum acceptance of ±0.20%, the mass resolving power of the SRing could be improved from R=1.6×104 to R=1.2×106, after isochronous higher-order corrections.