Conveners
Trapping for nuclear physics
- Klaus Blaum (Max Planck Society (DE))
Trapping for nuclear physics
- Klaus Blaum (Max Planck Society (DE))
Recent technical developments and experimental results from the ISOLTRAP mass spectrometer at ISOLDE/CERN will be presented in this contribution. During CERN’s Long Shutdown 2 (LS2), a large variety of technical upgrades and maintenance work have been performed. Most significantly, a new offline reference ion source has been built and commissioned, combining a surface ion source and a laser...
Negative ions lack a long-range Coulomb force. Instead, the long-range attraction is governed by an induced dipole potential which arises from the polarization of the atomic core by the additional electron. This leads to an enhanced importance of electron-electron correlation. The electron affinity (EA), which is the energy gained by attaching an electron to a neutral atom, is a quantity that...
Ever since its introduction in the mid 1970s, laser cooling has become a fundamental technique to prepare and control ions and atoms for a wide range of precision experiments. In the realm of rare isotope science, for instance, specific atom species of short-lived radionuclides have been laser-cooled for fundamental-symmetries studies[1] or for measurements of hyperfine-structure constants[2]...
Low energy branches of radioactive Ion Beam (RIB) facilities and experiments are faced with an ever increasing need to deliver high-quality ion beams and use them more efficiently. Experiments are commonly limited by isobaric contamination, resulting in decreased signal-to-noise ratios, systematic uncertainties caused by impure ion samples, or the need to process ever larger quantities of ions...
