The Ame2003 atomic mass evaluation: (I). Evaluation of input data,adjustment procedures
Institution:
1. National Institute of Nuclear Physics and High-Energy Physics, NIKHEF, PO Box 41882, 1009DB Amsterdam, The Netherlands;2. Centre de Spectrométrie Nucléaire et de Spectrométrie de Masse, CSNSM, IN2P3-CNRS&UPS, Bâtiment 108, F-91405 Orsay Campus, France;1. Department of Physics, Golestan University, Golestan, Iran;2. Advance Physics Laboratory, Research Center, Salahaddin University, Erbil 44001, Kurdistan, Iraq;3. Becquerel Institute for Radiation Research and Measurements, Erbil, Kurdistan, Iraq;4. Faculty of Physics, Shahrood University of Technology, Shahrood, Iran;5. Department of Physics and Astronomical Sciences, Central University of Himachal Pradesh, India;1. Department of Physics, University of York, York YO10 5DD, United Kingdom;2. GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, D-64291 Darmstadt, Germany;3. Institut für Kernphysik, Universität zu Köln, D-50937 Köln, Germany;4. IKP, Technische Universität Darmstadt, 64289 Darmstadt, Germany;5. Research Center for Nuclear Physics, Osaka University, Ibaraki, Osaka 567-0047, Japan;6. Department of Physics, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-0043, Japan;7. RIKEN Nishina Center, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan;8. Department of Physics, Royal Institute of Technology, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden;9. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Uppsala University, SE-75121 Uppsala, Sweden;10. Wright Nuclear Structure Laboratory, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USA;11. Physik Department E12, Technische Universität München, D-85748 Garching, Germany;12. Department of Physics, Tohoku University, 6-3 Aramaki-Aoba, Aoba, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8578, Japan;13. Instituto de Estructura de la Materia, CSIC, E-28006 Madrid, Spain;14. Department of Physics, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan;15. Grand Accélérateur National d''Ions Lourds (GANIL), CEA/DSM – CNRS/IN2P3, F-14076 Caen Cedex 5, France;p. IPHC, IN2p3-CNRS et Universited́e Strasbourg, F-67037 Strasbourg, France;1. II. Physikalisches Institut, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, 35392 Gießen, Germany;2. GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, 64291 Darmstadt, Germany;3. KVI – Center for Advanced Radiation Technology, University of Groningen, 9747 AA Groningen, The Netherlands;4. Department of Physics, University of Jyväskylä, FI-40014 Jyväskylä, Finland;1. Program of Medical Monitoring Techniques, Osmangazi University, Eskisehir, Turkey;2. Department of Physics, Karabuk University, Karabuk, Turkey;1. Key Laboratory of High Precision Nuclear Spectroscopy and Center for Nuclear Matter Science, Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China;2. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China;3. GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Planckstraβe 1, 64291 Darmstadt, Germany;4. Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Saupfercheckweg 1, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany;5. Research Center for Hadron Physics, National Laboratory of Heavy Ion Accelerator Facility in Lanzhou and University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China;6. J.W. Goete University, 60323 Frankfurt, Germany;7. School of Physics and Nuclear Energy Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China;8. Department of Physics, Saitama University, Saitama 338-8570, Japan
Abstract:
This paper is the first of two parts presenting the result of a new evaluation of atomic masses (Ame2003). In this first part we give full information on the used and rejected input data and on the procedures used in deriving the tables in the second part. We first describe the philosophy and procedures used in selecting nuclear-reaction, decay, and mass spectrometric results as input values in a least-squares evaluation of best values for atomic masses. The calculation procedures and particularities of the Ame are then described. All accepted data, and rejected ones with a reported precision still of interest, are presented in a table and compared there with the adjusted values. The differences with the earlier evaluation are briefly discussed and information is given of interest for the users of this Ame. The second paper for the Ame2003, last in this issue, gives a table of atomic masses, tables and graphs of derived quantities, and the list of references used in both this evaluation and the Nubase2003 table (first paper in this issue).Amdc: http://csnwww.in2p3.fr/AMDC/
