Atomic & Molecular Physics Group
Prof. Dr. Lutz Schweikhard
Geschäftsführender Direktor des Instituts für Physik der Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald

29. Juli 2010: AG Schweikhard and DAAD/RISE students: Albert Vass, Martin Arndt, Steffi Bandelow, Frank Wienholtz, Alexander Walter (RISE), Gerrit Marx, Falk Ziegler, Rosemarie Maugsch, Shane White (RISE), Juliana Au (RISE), Lissy Kleinwächter, Franklin Martinez

Not on the photograph: Christian Breitenfeldt, Christian Droese (currently at GSI), Erhard Eich, Stefan Knauer, Stephan Gierke, Marco Rosenbusch (currently at CERN), Robert Wolf (currently at CERN)

News:

Prof. Lutz Schweikhard has been elected a

Fellow of the American Physical Society

“for his developments of ion-trapping techniques and their application in the fields of nuclear, atomic and cluster research as well as know-how transfer to analytical chemistry”.

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

Nature 463, 785 (2010)

http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature08774

The Radon-229 discovery

· on Precision Mass Mesurements of Short-Lived Nuclei:

Discovery of ²²⁹Rn and the Structure of the Heaviest Rn and Ra Isotopes from Penning Trap Mass Measurements
D. Neidherr, G. Audi, D. Beck, K. Blaum, Ch. Böhm, M. Breitenfeldt, R.B. Cakirli, R.F. Casten, S. George, F. Herfurth, A. Herlert, A. Kellerbauer, M. Kowalska, D. Lunney, E. Minaya-Ramirez, S. Naimi, E. Noah, L. Penescu, M. Rosenbusch, S. Schwarz, L. Schweikhard, T. Stora
Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 112501 (2009)

is echoed in the media, examples: idw, FAZ

Other recent Publications of the Atomic & Molecular Physics Group:

· on Precision Mass Mesurements of Short-Lived Nuclei:

Critical-point boundary for the nuclear quantum phase transition near A = 100 from mass measurements of ^96,97Kr
S. Naimi, G. Audi, D. Beck, K. Blaum, Ch. Böhm, Ch. Borgmann, M. Breitenfeldt, S. George, F. Herfurth, A. Herlert, M. Kowalska, S. Kreim, D. Lunney, D. Neidherr, M. Rosenbusch, S. Schwarz, L. Schweikhard, K. Zuber
Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 032502 (2010)

· on Cluster Physics:

First observation of a tetra-anionic metal cluster, Al_n^4-
N. Walsh, F. Martinez, G. Marx, L. Schweikhard, F. Ziegler
J. Chem. Phys. 132, 014308 (2010)

· on Ion-Storage Techniques:

Unintended parametric ejection of ions from an ICR trap by two-electrode axialization
F. Martinez, A. Herlert, G. Marx, L. Schweikhard, N. Walsh
Eur. J. Mass Spectrom. 15, 283-291 (2009)

Contact:

Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald, Institut für Physik

Felix-Hausdorff-Str. 6, D-17487 Greifswald, Germany
phone: +49-3834-86-4700, fax: 86-4701