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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Just appeared or in print at Phys. Rev. Lett.:

 

Plumbing neutron stars to new depths with the binding energy of the exotic nuclide 82Zn  
R.N. Wolf et al. 110, 041101 (2013)  

cover of issue (see Jan 25, 2013), synopsis, press releases: idw in English, idw in German

 

Phase-imaging ion-cyclotron-resonance measurements for short-lived nuclides
S. Eliseev et al., in print

 

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Nov. 2012: Defense of Doctoral Thesis by Franklin Martinez

    

Congratulations !

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Further Highlights:

Direct mapping of nuclear shell effects in the heaviest elements

Science 337, 1207 (2012) press release/echo (in German): university, idw, FAZ, Physik in unserer Zeit, (in English): idw

 

Two-electron emission after photoexcitation of metal-cluster dianions
A. Herlert, L. Schweikhard, New J. Phys. 14, 055015 (2012)

 

Lutz Schweikhard elected Fellow of the American Physical Society

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

 

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

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

 

Radon-229 discovery

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 112501 (2009) media release/echo (in German): idw, FAZ

Other recent publications of the Atomic & Molecular Physics Group:

·         on Cluster Physics:  

Appearance size of poly-anionic aluminum clusters, Alnz, z = 2 5, F. Martinez et al., Eur. J. Phys. D, in print (as of Jan. 2013)

·         on Ion-Storage Techniques:  

The Stability Diagram of the Digital Ion Trap, S. Bandelow et al., Int. J. Mass Spectrom., in print (available online)

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)

·         on Beta Decay:  

Q-Value and Half-Lives for the Double-Beta-Decay Nuclide 110Pd, Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 062502 (2012), press release (in German): idw

Resonant enhancement of neutrinoless double electron capture in 152Gd, Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 052504 (2011), press release (in German): idw

 

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