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The MISTRAL project (Mass measurements at ISolde using a Transmission RAdiofrequency spectrometer on-Line) is scheduled to begin experiments towards the end of 1996. With high resolution (105), potentially high accuracy (5×10−7) and excellent sensitivity (10 s−1), the MISTRAL spectrometer promises to provide needed mass measurements in regions of very-short lived nuclei. The spectrometer operation principles are described and a discussion concerning the interest in using highly charged ions is presented.
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CSNSM, Orsay; IAP, Bucharest; PPE Division, CERN; GSI, Darmstadt; University of Mainz; McGill University, Montreal; IPN, Orsay; Chalmers University, Göteborg; University of Giessen and the ISOLDE Collaboration.
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Lunney, M.D., Audi, G., Borcea, C. et al. MISTRAL: A new program for precise atomic mass determinations of nuclides far from stability. Hyperfine Interact 99, 105–114 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02274914
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