Cluster Trap experiment
Research projects

· Ion trap investigations and technical developments

(Penning trap and linear Paul trap)

• Ion accumulation and selection
• Instabilities of the ion motion
• ionization and electron attachment

• Experimental methods for the investigation of clusters

• Collision induced dissociation and activation
• Time resolved photofragmentation
• Electron induced dissociation and ionization
• Electron attachment to anions
• Chemical reactions

• Investigation of cluster properties

• reactivity
• dissociation
• radiative cooling
• electron emission
• fission

Short article on molecule stability published at "Physik in unserer Zeit" (abstract / PDF)