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Penning traps are widely used for high-precision mass measurements of radionuclides related to nuclear astrophysics studies and the evolution of nuclear structure far away from stability. With the stopping of secondary beams in gas cells together with advanced ion-beam manipulation techniques their reach has been extended to rare isotopes of essentially all elements. The Penning trap mass spectrometer SHIPTRAP at GSI Darmstadt has recently demonstrated that even high-precision mass measurements of transfermium elements can be performed despite low production rates of only about one particle per second. This important milestone opens new perspectives for the study of superheavy elements with ion traps.
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Block, M., Ackermann, D., Blaum, K. et al. Penning trap mass measurements of transfermium elements with SHIPTRAP. Hyperfine Interact 196, 225–231 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10751-010-0161-z
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