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
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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
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