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  • 2008 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For contribution to highprecision experiments with cooled and stored ions, especially highprecision mass spectrometry on highlycharged ions and shortlived radionuclides, and laser spectroscopy and magnetic moment measurements for fundamental studies

Overview

Klaus Blaum is affiliated with the Max Planck Society in Germany and conducts research primarily in the field of Physics and Astronomy. Their work spans several subfields, including Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, Radiation, Spectroscopy, and Aerospace Engineering.

The main topics that characterize their research include Nuclear physics research studies, Atomic and Molecular Physics, Astronomical and nuclear sciences, Nuclear Physics and Applications, Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research, Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions, and Neutrino Physics Research.

Their recent notable publications include:

  • "Laser Spectroscopy of Neutron-Rich Hg-207,208 Isotopes: Illuminating the Kink and Odd-Even Staggering in Charge Radii across the N=126 Shell Closure," 2021, Physical Review Letters
  • "A 16-parts-per-trillion measurement of the antiproton-to-proton charge-mass ratio," 2022, Nature
  • "The design, construction, and commissioning of the KATRIN experiment," 2021, Journal of Instrumentation
  • "Constraints on the Coupling between Axionlike Dark Matter and Photons Using an Antiproton Superconducting Tuned Detection Circuit in a Cryogenic Penning Trap," 2021, Physical Review Letters
  • "Neutrinoless double-electron capture," 2020, Reviews of Modern Physics

Frequent coauthors contributing to their publications include Yu. A. Litvinov, Christoph H. Keitel, S. Ulmer, S. Eliseev, and L. Schweikhard. These collaborations have contributed to a breadth of work primarily published across several key journals and venues.

Their work is often published in notable scientific journals such as Physical Review Letters, arXiv (Cornell University), Physical Review C, Nature, and Review of Scientific Instruments.

Klaus Blaum was recognized as a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2008 for contributions to high-precision experiments with cooled and stored ions, high-precision mass spectrometry on highly charged ions and short-lived radionuclides, and laser spectroscopy and magnetic moment measurements for fundamental studies.

Best Publications

  • High-accuracy mass spectrometry with stored ions

    Klaus Blaum

  • Improved Upper Limit on the Neutrino Mass from a Direct Kinematic Method by KATRIN

    M. Aker;K. Altenmüller;M. Arenz;M. Babutzka

  • Masses of exotic calcium isotopes pin down nuclear forces

    Frank Wienholtz;D. Beck;Klaus Blaum;Ch. Borgmann

  • Unexpectedly large charge radii of neutron-rich calcium isotopes

    R.F. Garcia Ruiz;M.L. Bissell;M.L. Bissell;Klaus Blaum;A. Ekström;A. Ekström

  • High-precision measurement of the atomic mass of the electron

    S. Sturm;F. Köhler;J. Zatorski;A. Wagner

  • From direct to absolute mass measurements: A study of the accuracy of ISOLTRAP

    A. Kellerbauer;K. Blaum;G. Bollen;F. Herfurth

  • First Penning Trap Mass Measurements beyond the Proton Drip Line

    C. Rauth;D. Ackermann;Klaus Blaum;M. Block

  • Precision Atomic Physics Techniques for Nuclear Physics with Radioactive Beams

    Klaus Blaum;Jens Dilling;Jens Dilling;Wilfried Nörtershäuser;Wilfried Nörtershäuser

  • ISOLTRAP: An on-line Penning trap for mass spectrometry on short-lived nuclides

    M. Mukherjee;D. Beck;K. Blaum;G. Bollen

  • Measurement of the spin and magnetic moment of 31Mg: evidence for a strongly deformed intruder ground state.

    Gerda Neyens;M Kowalska;Deyan Yordanov;K Blaum

  • Nuclear charge radii of 7,9,10Be and the one-neutron halo nucleus 11Be.

    Wilfried Nörtershäuser;D. Tiedemann;M. Záková;Z. Andjelkovic

  • Mass measurements of the neutron-deficient 41Ti, 45Cr, 49Fe, and 53Ni nuclides: first test of the isobaric multiplet mass equation in f p-shell nuclei.

    Y. H. Zhang;H. S. Xu;Yu. A. Litvinov;X. L. Tu

  • Direct mass measurements above uranium bridge the gap to the island of stability

    Michael Block;D. Ackermann;Klaus Blaum;C. Droese

  • Phase-Imaging Ion-Cyclotron-Resonance Measurements for Short-Lived Nuclides

    Sergey Eliseev;Klaus Blaum;M. Block;C. Droese

  • Direct mass measurements of short-lived A=2Z-1 nuclides (63)Ge, (65)As, (67)Se, and (71)Kr and their impact on nucleosynthesis in the rp process

    X.L. Tu;H.S. Xu;M. Wang;Y.H. Zhang

  • ISOLTRAP's multi-reflection time-of-flight mass separator/spectrometer

    R.N. Wolf;F. Wienholtz;D. Atanasov;D. Beck

  • g Factor of Hydrogenlike 28Si13

    Sven Sturm;Anke Wagner;Anke Wagner;Birgit Schabinger;Birgit Schabinger;Jacek Zatorski

  • The Ramsey method in high-precision mass spectrometry with Penning traps: Experimental results

    S. George;K. Blaum;F. Herfurth;A. Herlert

  • Direct Measurement of the Mass Difference of $^{163}$Ho and $^{163}$Dy Solves the $Q$-Value Puzzle for the Neutrino Mass Determination

    S. Eliseev;K. Blaum;M. Block;S. Chenmarev;S. Chenmarev

  • High-precision comparison of the antiproton-to-proton charge-to-mass ratio.

    S. Ulmer;C. Smorra;A. Mooser;Kurt Franke

Frequent Co-Authors

Kai Zuber
Kai Zuber TU Dresden
Andreas Wolf
Andreas Wolf Max Planck Society
Igor Tkachev
Igor Tkachev Russian Academy of Sciences

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