Atomic & Molecular Physics Group
at the Instituts für Physik der Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald

Ion Trapping and Mass Spectrometry

for Nuclear, Atomic and Molecular Physics Research

Prof. Dr. Lutz Schweikhard

July 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)

Upcoming events:

10th Int. Workshop on Non-Neutral Plasmas,

Aug 27 – 30, 2012, Greifswald

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

A few 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

2010: 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, Al_n^4-, 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