This paper reports on the hyperfine-structure and radioactive-decay studies of the neutron-deficient francium isotopes 202−206Fr performed with the Collinear Resonance Ionization Spectroscopy (CRIS) experiment at the ISOLDE facility, CERN. The high resolution innate to collinear laser spectroscopy is combined with the high efficiency of ion detection to provide a highly-sensitive technique to probe the hyperfine structure of exotic isotopes. The technique of decay-assisted laser spectroscopy is presented, whereby the isomeric ion beam is deflected to a decay spectroscopy station for alpha-decay tagging of the hyperfine components. Here, we present the first hyperfine-structure measurements of the neutron-deficient francium isotopes 202−206Fr, in addition to the identification of the low-lying states of 202,204Fr performed at the CRIS experiment.
@article{arxiv.1402.4266,
title = {Decay-assisted collinear resonance ionization spectroscopy: Application to neutron-deficient francium},
author = {K. M. Lynch and J. Billowes and M. L. Bissell and I. Budinčević and T. E. Cocolios and R. P. De Groote and S. De Schepper and V. N. Fedosseev and K. T. Flanagan and S. Franchoo and R. F. Garcia Ruiz and H. Heylen and B. A. Marsh and G. Neyens and T. J. Procter and R. E. Rossel and S. Rothe and I. Strashnov and H. H. Stroke and K. D. A. Wendt},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1402.4266},
year = {2014}
}