Atomic physics experiments with trapped and cooled highly charged ions

Details Atomic physics experiments with trapped and cooled highly charged ions Atomic physics experiments with trapped and cooled highly charged ions

2007-04-26

arxiv.org/abs/0704.3555v1

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Atomic Physics

8 pages, 5 figures, 1 table. accepted for Journal of Physics Conference Series (2006)

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Trapping and cooling techniques have become very important for many fundamental experiments in atomic physics. When applied to highly charged ions confined in Penning traps, these procedures are very effective for testing quantum electrodynamics in extreme electromagnetic fields produced by heavy highly charged ions such as uranium U$^{91+}$. In addition, fundamental constants or nuclear ground state properties can be determined with high accuracy in these simple systems. Finally, by studying a single trapped radioactive ion, its nuclear decay can be studied in detail by observing the disappearance of the signal of the mother and the appearance of that of the daughter isotope. Such experiments on highly charged ions at extremely low energy will become possible by the HITRAP facility which is currently being built up at GSI. Also the future Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR) will be briefly described which is expected to be operational by 2014.

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