Gediminas Gaigalas

The atomic mass of uranium-238 has been determined to be $238.050\,787\,618(15)\,\text{u}$, improving the literature uncertainty by two orders of magnitude. It is obtained from a measurement of the mass ratio of $^{238}$U$^{47+}$ and $^{132}$Xe$^{26+}$ ions with an uncertainty of $3.5\times 10^{-12}$. The measurement was carried out with the Penning-trap mass spectrometer \textsc{Pentatrap} and was accompanied by a calculation of the binding energies $E_{\text{U}}$ and $E_{\text{Xe}}$ of the 47 and 26 missing electrons of the two highly charged ions, respectively. These binding energies were determined using an \textit{ab initio} multiconfiguration Dirac-Hartree-Fock (MCDHF) method to be $E_{\text{U}} = 39\,927(10)\,\text{eV}$ and $E_{\text{Xe}} = 8\,971.2(21)\,\text{eV}$. The new mass value will serve as a reference for high-precision mass measurements in the heavy mass region of the nuclear chart up to transuranium nuclides.

We present investigation of the influence of cascade emission to the formation of spectra from plasma created by electron beam ion trap (EBIT) in electron trapping mode. It has been shown that cascade emission can play an important role in the formation of spectra from the EBIT plasma. Process of the cascade emission takes place when ion having cycloidal orbit leaves electron beam where coronal approximation is applicable. Thus both processes - excitation from ground or metastable levels and cascade emission - take part in the population of levels. Demonstration is based on the investigation of $W^{13+}$ spectra. The present investigation helps to resolve long-standing discrepancies; in particular, the present structure of $W^{13+}$ spectra is in good agreement with measurements on electron beam ion trap. Lines in the experimental spectra are identified as $4f^{13} 5s 5p \rightarrow 4f^{13} 5s^{2}$ and $4f^{12} 5s 5p^{2} \rightarrow 4f^{12} 5s^{2} 5p$ transitions from Dirac-Fock-Slater calculations.