Analysis methods and code for very high-precision mass measurements of unstable isotopes

Published: 6 August 2021| Version 1 | DOI: 10.17632/5jxkxbkkkr.1
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We present a robust analysis code developed in the Python language and incorporating libraries of the ROOT data analysis framework for the state-of-the-art mass spectrometry method called phase-imaging ion-cyclotron-resonance (PI-ICR). A step-by-step description of the dataset construction and analysis algorithm is given. The code features a new phase-determination approach that offers up to 10 times smaller statistical uncertainties. This improvement in statistical uncertainty is confirmed using extensive Monte-Carlo simulations and allows for very high-precision studies of exotic nuclear masses to test, among others, the standard model of particle physics.

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Nuclear Physics, Computational Physics

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