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Atoms, Volume 14, Issue 8

2026 August - 9 articles

Cover Story: The nuclear mass, a fundamental property of atomic nuclei, is a crucial component in nuclear structure and nucleosynthesis studies. Mass measurements of isotopes around the A = 184 region near stability were performed at the KEK Isotope Separation System (KISS) within the RIKEN Nishina Center, Japan. Isotopes of interest were produced via multi-nucleon transfer reactions with a 136Xe beam of 7.2 MeV/u impinging on a natural tungsten target. The captured atoms are ionized via resonant-laser ionization and are measured with a multi-reflection time-of-flight spectrograph. We report here five masses measured at KISS, including the first direct mass measurement of 184Ta, which shows a 62(27) keV deviation compared to indirect measurements from the literature. View this paper
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Articles (9)

  • Article
  • Open Access
382 Views
17 Pages

17 August 2026

In scattering and tunnelling-to-continuum problems, the regular and irregular solution pairs to the one-particle radial Schrödinger equation follow various amplitude and phase difference conventions at infinity. The Milne transformation of the S...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Quantum and Optical Phenomena in Atomic Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
340 Views
23 Pages

15 August 2026

An algorithm for large-scale correlated calculations on atoms is presented that significantly reduces the scaling of these calculations with the number of single-particle functions used to construct the N-particle states. The reduction is provided in...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Future Directions in Atomic Physics Inspired by the Pioneering Work of Charlotte Froese Fischer and Ian Philip Grant)
  • Article
  • Open Access
422 Views
12 Pages

Ab Initio Quadrupole-Invariant Analysis of Neutron-Rich Deformed Nuclei Around N = 28

  • Liu-Yuan Shen,
  • Xin-Peng Wang,
  • Hong-Hui Li,
  • Hong-Yu Zhu,
  • Wei Zuo and
  • Qi Yuan

12 August 2026

We present an ab initio quadrupole-invariant study of neutron-rich nuclei around N=28. Effective Hamiltonians and consistently evolved E2 operators are obtained from chiral NN+3N interactions using the ab initio valence-space in-medium similarity ren...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Nuclear Ab Initio Calculations)
  • Article
  • Open Access
348 Views
18 Pages

11 August 2026

We investigate reactive collision dynamics and effective interaction cross-sections using classical trajectory simulations on a reduced-dimensional reactive potential-energy surface containing reactant and product wells separated by an intermediate b...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1,008 Views
22 Pages

A Survey on Atomic Clocks in GNSS and Beyond

  • Georgios Tzanoulinos,
  • Spiros Makris and
  • Vaios Lappas

2 August 2026

Space-based navigation systems rely on atomic clocks aboard satellites to provide precise time and positioning information through synchronized radio-frequency signals. At the core are Atomic Frequency References (AFRs), which stabilize a local oscil...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Ultra-Precise Atomic Clocks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
402 Views
12 Pages

1 August 2026

We outline an intermediate step toward a semirelativistic BSR–RMT interface by using inner-region structure information generated with the B-spline R-matrix (BSR) method as the input to the Seaton/Badnell STGF/STGBF outer-region asymptotic code...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Future Directions in Atomic Physics Inspired by the Pioneering Work of Charlotte Froese Fischer and Ian Philip Grant)
  • Article
  • Open Access
606 Views
22 Pages

“Square-Root” Klein–Gordon Equation: The Harmonic and Morse Potentials

  • Luis A. Poveda,
  • Bill Poirier and
  • Arthur R. B. de Magalhães

1 August 2026

Quantum relativistic solutions of a “square-root” version of the Klein–Gordon equation, for a particle in a one-dimensional Morse potential, are presented using methods previously proposed and applied to a particle in a harmonic osc...

(This article belongs to the Section Atomic, Molecular and Nuclear Spectroscopy and Collisions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
478 Views
16 Pages

Configuration Assignments to K = 1/2 Three-Quasiparticle Bands

  • Manpreet Kaur,
  • Sushil Kumar,
  • Sukhjeet Singh and
  • A. K. Jain

1 August 2026

In the present work, configuration assignments to K = 1/2 bandheads of given three-quasiparticle (3qp) quadruplets experimentally observed and yet to be observed in odd-A nuclei lying in the rare-earth mass region are carried out based on an improved...

  • Article
  • Open Access
758 Views
10 Pages

First Direct Mass Measurement of 184Ta and Surrounding Nuclei

  • Jinn Ming Yap,
  • Peter Schury,
  • Sarah Naimi,
  • Gemma Bartram,
  • Alison M. Bruce,
  • Navodhayan Chandrakumar,
  • Jiulong Chen,
  • James G. Cubiss,
  • Siddharth Doshi and
  • Yutaka X. Watanabe
  • + 19 authors

1 August 2026

Mass measurements of isotopes around the A=184 region near stability were performed at the KEK Isotope Separation System within the RIKEN Nishina Center, Japan. The isotopes were produced via multi-nucleon transfer reactions with a 136Xe beam of 7.2...

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