Speaker
Description
Storage rings connected to radioactive beam facilities offer unique experimental environments for measurements of rare decay modes that are otherwise not possible.
I will give an overview about some recent experiments at the Experimental Storage Ring at GSI Darmstadt, Germany, measuring rare decay modes that can only appear in highly-charged ions, for example the measurement of the bound-state beta-decay of 205Tl(81+) and the and its impact on the long-term solar neutrino flux in the LOREX project.
A new research stream that has received a lot of attention in the community in the past 10 years are astrophysically relevant reactions of stored ions with protons. This program is now successfully running and I will highlight some recent results. The next logical step is to investigate the possibility of neutron-capture reactions in inverse kinematics. I will outline some ideas for existing storage rings and which role a storage ring at TRIUMF could play in the future.
| Keyword-1 | Nuclear astrophysics |
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| Keyword-2 | Heavy element nucleosynthesis |
| Keyword-3 | Storage rings |
