Atomic & Molecular Physics Group
at the Institute of Physics of the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University Greifswald

 

Ion Trapping and Mass Spectrometry

for Nuclear, Atomic and Molecular Physics Research

Prof. Dr. Lutz Schweikhard

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Breaking News

Direct mapping of nuclear shell effects in the heaviest elements

appeared in print in Science Magazine 337, 1207-1210 on Sept. 07

      (after online publishing in Science Express)

link to article: DOI: 10.1126/science.1225636

press releases: http://www.uni-greifswald.de/physik01,  idw (in English),  idw (in German) 

see also perspective article by G. Bollen: Measuring the Heaviest Atoms

        Science Magazine 337, 1207-1210 DOI: 10.1126/science.1228467

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Recent event:

10th Int. Workshop on Non-Neutral Plasmas,

Aug 27 – 30, 2012, Greifswald

visit http://www.ipp.mpg.de/nnp2012/

 

A few further Highlights:

Q-Value and Half-Lives for the Double-Beta-Decay Nuclide 110Pd

PRL 108, 062502 (2012) press release (in German): idw

 

Resonant enhancement of neutrinoless double electron capture in 152Gd

PRL 106, 052504 (2011) press release (in German): idw

 

Lutz Schweikhard elected Fellow of the American Physical Society

for his developments of ion-trapping techniques and their application …  press release (in German): idw

 

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

Nature 463, 785 (2010)  press release (in German): idw

 

Radon-229 discovery

PRL 102, 112501 (2009) media echo (in German): 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 et al., PRL 105, 032502 (2010)

 

·         on Cluster Physics:  

First observation of a tetra-anionic metal cluster, Aln4-, N. Walsh et al., J. Chem. Phys. 132, 014308 (2010)

 

·         on Ion-Storage Techniques:  

Lifting of the trapping-potential during ion storage for multi-anion production in a Penning trap, F. Martinez et al., Int. J. Mass Spectrom. 313, 30 (2012)

Static-mirror ion capture and time focusing for electrostatic ion-beam traps and multi-reflection time-of-flight mass analyzers by use of an in-trap potential lift, R.N. Wolf et al., Int. J. Mass Spectrom. 313, 8 (2012)

Unintended parametric ejection of ions from an ICR trap by two-electrode axialization, F. Martinez et al., Eur. J. Mass Spectrom. 15, 283 (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