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...
Different predictive nuclear models, based on the nuclear shell model, have been developed to describe fundamental properties of all nuclei, such as energies and transition rates between nuclear states; however, no nuclear model is found to be complete. The quality of predictive nuclear models are often assessed by comparing the theoretical electromagnetic transition rates with the...
Neutron time of flight spectroscopy is a valuable tool for a wide range of nuclear physics experiments. These include direct measurements of astrophysical ($\alpha$,n) or (p,n) reactions; nuclear spectroscopy through transfer reactions such as (d,n); and decay spectroscopy of neutron-unbound states. Such experiments require fast neutron detectors with high detection efficiency, sub-ns timing...
The rapid neutron capture process (r-process) is believed to be responsible for the synthesis of the heaviest elements in the Universe and to occur in extreme astrophysical events such as compact binary mergers. Despite a multitude of efforts and developments to understand the workings of the r-process both in nuclear physics and astrophysics, many challenges and unknowns remain. One of such...
