9th International Conference on Trapped Charged Particles and Fundamental Physics (TCP 2026)

13 Sept 2026, 16:00 → 18 Sept 2026, 13:00 Europe/London

Castle Suite (Vale resort Cardiff, UK)

Adam Powell (CERN), Niels Madsen (Swansea University (GB))

The 9th International Conference on Trapped Charged Particles and Fundamental Physics (TCP 2026) will take place at The Vale Resort, Vale of Glamorgan, UK on September 14-18, 2026.

The International Conference on Trapped Charged Particles and Fundamental Physics conference focuses on recent important topics and highlights in the field of trapped charged particles with applications in nuclear and atomic physics as well as metrology and will address in particular the following areas:

 

• Fundamental Interactions and Symmetries
• QED Effects
• Quantum State Manipulation and Quantum Information
• Precision Spectroscopy and Frequency Standards
• Highly Charged Ions in Traps
• Radioactive Isotopes in Traps
• Plasmas and Collective Behavior
• Storage Ring Physics
• Trapped Antimatter
• Applications of Charged Particle Trapping

https://iop.eventsair.com/tcp2026/

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Conference Timetable Summary

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TCP 2026 POSTER NUMBERS 14.09.xlsx.pdf

WelcomePresentation.pdf

Sunday 13 September

16:00 → 18:00 Registration

18:00 → 20:00 Welcome Reception

Monday 14 September

08:00 → 08:30 Registration

08:30 → 08:50 Registration: Welcome & Opening

08:50 → 10:50 Radioactive Isotopes in Traps

08:50 Highlights from recent MR-ToF measurements on radioactive isotopes

Speaker: Marco Rosenbusch (Riken)

09:20 The N=126 Factory at Argonne National Laboratory

Speaker: Alicen Houff (University Of Notre Dame)

09:40 Overview of ion trapping systems at the IGISOL facility

Speaker: Tommi Eronen (University of Jyvaskyla)

10:00 A Multi-Reflection Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometer for the DESIR facility

Speaker: Laetitia Canete

10:20 Studies of beta-delayed neutron emission properties with BEARtrap

Speaker: Sam Porter (University Of Notre Dame)

10:50 → 11:10 Coffee

11:10 → 13:00 Radioactive Isotopes in Traps

11:10 Enhanced sensitivity for electron affinity measurements of rare elements

Speaker: Maier Franziska (JYU)

11:40 Mass Measurements of Exotic 49,50Ar Isotopes by High-Precision MRTOF and Its Impact on the Understanding of Nuclear Structure

Speaker: Fu Chaoyi (Institute Of Modern Physics)

12:00 High-Precision Determination of Low-Q-Value β-Decay Energies with the JYFLTRAP Double Penning Trap

Speaker: Zhuang Ge (University Of Jyväskylä)

12:20 Mass Measurements with the CPT at CARIBU

Speaker: Adrian Valverde (Argonne National Laboratory)

13:00 → 14:30 Lunch

14:30 → 16:00 Precision Spectroscopy and Frequency Standards

14:30 Th$^{3+}$ spectroscopy in a cryogenic Paul trap

Speaker: Markus Wiesinger (LMU Munich)

15:00 Towards higher sensitivity laser spectroscopy at the IGISOL facility

Speaker: Daniel Bettaney (University of Manchester)

15:20 Recent developments for laser spectroscopy at the Low-Energy Branch of SPIRAL2-S3

Speaker: Valentin Marchand (Ijclab)

15:40 Trapping and laser cooling of fast Sr+ beams: A stepping stone towards in-trap laser spectroscopy of short-lived isotopes

Speaker: Stefanos Pelonis (IKS, KU LEUVEN)

16:00 → 16:30 Coffee

16:30 → 18:05 Precision Spectroscopy and Frequency Standards

16:30 Precision hydrogen spectroscopy and towards XUV spectroscopy of He+

Speaker: Thomas Udem (Max Planck Institute For Quantum Optics)

17:20 Towards high-precision optical and radiofrequency spectroscopy of stable and radioactive Sr+

Speaker: Robbe Van Duyse (Ku Leuven)

17:40 Recent developments and mass measurements at TITAN, TRIUMF

Speaker: Moritz Pascal Reiter (The University Of Edinburgh)

19:00 → 20:00 Dinner

20:00 → 21:00 Poster session

Tuesday 15 September

09:00 → 10:20 Highly Charged Ions in Traps

09:00 Stringent tests of bound-state QED with Highly charged tin ions

Speaker: Jonathan Morgner (CERN)

09:30 Robust and direct precision isotope shift measurements in entangled Ba+ ions

Speaker: Johannes Helgert (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

10:00 Nuclear decay studies using trapped highly charged, radioactive ions within the HINA (Highly charged Ions for Nuclear physics and Astrophysics) project

Speaker: Michele Sguazzin (CNRS)

10:20 → 11:00 Conference photo & Coffee

11:00 → 12:50 Quantum State Manipulation and Quantum Information

11:00 Hyperfine spectroscopy of h2+ with quantum logic

Speaker: Daniel Kienzler (ETH Zurich)

11:30 Motional eigenmodes of a trapped electron as a platform for qubits

Speaker: Markus Fleck (Riken Center for Quantum Computing)

11:50 Scalable electronic qubit control for trapped-ion quantum computing

Speaker: Lukas Spieß (IonQ, Inc.)

12:10 Entanglement of trapped-ion qubits over a 50 km-long fiber link

Speaker: Armin Winkler (Universität Innsbruck)

12:30 A Penning trap single-photon counter for axion dark matter detection

Speaker: Marko Wojtkowiak (Imperial College London)

13:00 → 14:30 Lunch

14:30 → 16:00 Plasmas and Collective Behavior

14:30 Progress with 2D ion crystals

Speaker: Alison Carter (NIST)

15:00 Site-selective spin control in rotating Penning-trap ion crystals

Speaker: Robert Wolf

15:20 Structural Bistability and Optical Control of Coulomb Crystals

Speaker: Carlo Sias (Inrim and Lens)

15:40 Inverse turbulent cascade in pure electron plasmas in a levitated dipole trap

Speaker: Patrick Steinbrunner (Max Planck Institute For Plasma Physics)

16:00 → 16:20 Coffee

16:20 → 18:15 Applications of Charged Particle Trapping

16:20 Electron Plasma Confinement for Gabor Lens Applications

Speaker: Poramaporn Ruksasakchai (Swansea University)

16:50 Observation of Transition to Space-Charge Dominated Motion in Trapped Ion Clouds

Speaker: Eliana Ruth Wallach (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology)

17:10 New Design Freedoms in Charged Particle Traps through Integrated and Monolithic Architectures

Speaker: Jacob Stupp (Leibniz University Hannover)

17:30 Status and Upgrades to Charged Particle Traps at CERN-ISOLDE

Speaker: Lukas Nies (CERN)

17:50 Development of a new cryogenic Penning trap at SHIPTRAP

Speaker: Jouni Ruotsalainen

18:15 → 19:30 Poster session

19:30 → 20:30 Dinner

Wednesday 16 September

08:50 → 10:30 Storage Ring Physics

08:50 Surrogate reactions in inverse kinematics at heavy-ion storage rings

Speaker: Lucas Bégué--guillou (CNRS Lp2ib)

09:20 A novel PCB-based Radio Frequency Quadrupole Cooler and Buncher for the (Super-)FRS Ion Catcher

Speaker: Gemma Robertson (University Of Edinburgh)

09:40 The current status of the SCRIT electron scattering experiment

Speaker: KAZUYOSHI KURITA (Rikkyo University)

10:00 Heavy Ion Storage Rings for Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics

Speaker: Ragandeep Singh Sidhu (University of Surrey)

10:30 → 10:50 Coffee

10:50 → 12:00 Storage Ring Physics

10:50 Molecular physics studies with the DESIREE storage ring

Speaker: Henning Schmidt (Stockholm University)

11:20 Development of a (Multi-Reflection Time-of-Flight) MRTOF-type isobar separation for the applied SCRIT electron scattering method to 132Sn

Speaker: Hiroto Matsubara (Rikkyo University)

11:40 Offline commissioning of the double Penning trap PIPERADE

Speaker: Gauthier Guignard

12:00 → 13:00 Lunch

13:00 → 17:00 Social excursion

19:00 → 20:30 Dinner

Thursday 17 September

09:00 → 10:40 Trapped Antimatter: Antihydrogen

09:00 Be+-Assisted Antihydrogen Synthesis and Trapping in the ALPHA Apparatus

Speaker: Maria Goncalves (Swansea University)

09:30 Recent advances in antihydrogen production rates in the ASACUSA-Cusp apparatus

Speaker: Marcus Bumbar (CERN)

10:00 Off-axis charge control advancements for antihydrogen precision measurements in ALPHA

Speaker: Jaspal Singh (University Of Manchester - ALPHA, CERN)

10:20 Precision improvements for laser spectroscopy of antihydrogen in the ALPHA experiment

Speaker: Virginia Marshall (The University Of Manchester)

10:40 → 11:10 Coffee

11:10 → 12:50 Trapped Antimatter

11:10 Antiproton transport and precision measurements on single trapped antiprotons

Speaker: Christian Smorra (Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf)

11:40 Advances in Positronium Microwave Spectroscopy

Speaker: David Cassidy (UCL)

12:10 Measurements of charge-exchange cross sections of antiprotons with positronium in GBAR: Towards synthesis of antihydrogen ions

Speaker: Ivana Belosevic

13:00 → 14:30 Lunch

14:30 → 16:10 Trapped Antimatter: Precision Spectroscopy and Frequency Standards

14:30 Towards the Formation of Exotic Atoms in AEgIS: New Techniques for Co-Trapping Antiprotons and Anions

Speaker: Kamila Kempny (Warsaw University Of Technology)

15:00 Measurements of positronium compound binding energies

Speaker: Alina Weiser (Marietta-Blau-Institute For Particle Physics (MBI))

15:20 Cooling positive muons for fundamental physics tests

Speaker: Joanna Peszka (GSI Helmholtz Centre For Heavy Ion Research)

15:40 One step closer to a direct H - Hbar experiment

Speaker: Nikolaos Efthymiadis (University Of Groningen)

16:10 → 16:30 Coffee

16:30 → 18:00 Trapped Antimatter

16:30 Commissioning Status of PUMA: The antiProton Unstable Matter Annihilation Experiment

Speaker: Coulter Walls (Tu Darmstadt)

17:00 LSym: A Cryogenic Penning Trap Experiment for a Precision CPT Test with Simultaneously Trapped Electron and Positron

Speaker: Maria Pasinetti

17:20 Developments towards quantum logic spectroscopy for high-precision g-factor measurements of (anti-)protons in a cryogenic Penning trap

Speaker: Jan Schaper (Leibniz University Hannover)

17:40 Commissioning of the low-energy beamline of NEXT

Speaker: Jasper Westbroek (University Of Groningen)

18:30 → 18:55 Shuttles or walk to Hensol Castle

19:00 → 21:00 Conference Dinner

Friday 18 September

09:00 → 10:00 Radioactive Isotopes in Traps

09:00 Nuclear structure studies using the masses of 89Ru and 93Pd measured with the FRS Ion Catcher and plans for the first experiments at the Super-FRS Ion Catcher at FAIR

Speaker: Gabriella Kripkó-Koncz (University of Edinburgh)

09:20 PENTATRAP: High-Precision Penning-Trap Mass Measurements for Tests of Fundamental Physics

Speaker: Julius Franke (Max Planck Institute For Nuclear Physics)

09:40 Precise Penning trap Q value determinations for forbidden and low energy beta-decays

Speaker: Matthew Redshaw (Central Michigan University)

10:00 → 10:20 Coffee

10:20 → 11:20 Fundamental Interactions and Symmetries

10:20 Measuring Electroweak Nuclear Properties with Single Molecular Ions in a Penning Trap

Speaker: Charlotte Konig (Mit/texas A&m)

10:40 Probing CP violation in nuclear beta decay with the MORA experiment

Speaker: Pierre Delahaye (Ganil)

11:00 Commissioning of the RAFICI setup for the production and study of RaF for the use in eEDM searches

Speaker: Jamie Jones (University Of Edinburgh)

11:20 → 11:30 Closing

11:30 → 12:30 Lunch