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The LEBIT Facility and Penning Traps

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Precision mass measurements of isotopes provide a critical avenue for the study of many areas of nuclear physics. Penning trap mass spectrometry provides the highest-precision avenue of study of the mass of radioactive nuclei. This chapter provides an overview of Penning trap mass spectrometry, as well as a description of the LEBIT facility at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory.

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    Reprinted from Cooper et al. [3], Copyright 2014, with permission from Elsevier.

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    Reprinted from Ringle et al. [18], Copyright 2009, with permission from Elsevier.

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    Reprinted from Ringle et al. [18], Copyright 2009, with permission from Elsevier.

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    Reprinted from Ringle et al. [18], Copyright 2009, with permission from Elsevier.

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    Reprinted from Kwiatkowski et al. [31], Copyright 2015, with permission from Elsevier.

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Valverde, A.A. (2019). The LEBIT Facility and Penning Traps. In: Precision Measurements to Test the Standard Model and for Explosive Nuclear Astrophysics. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30778-3_3

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