Eurotraps

EUROTRAPS

A European Commission funded Research Training Network for Ultra-High Precision Spectroscopy of Highly Charged, Stored and Cooled Ions

EUROTRAPS is a network of European research teams working in the field of precision spectroscopy of highly charged ions in ion traps. Highly charged heavy ions (HCI) represent a new rich field for atomic physics and a challenging test for atomic calculations concerning total binding energies as determined by mass measurements in traps, g-factors in one-electron systems, and lifetimes and hyperfine structures in few-electron systems.

The research objectives are:

• high-accuracy tests of the theory of Quantum Electrodynamics (QED) in extremely strong electromagnetic fields by measuring masses of bare and few-electron highly charged heavy ions up to U⁹²⁺, U⁹¹⁺, U⁹⁰⁺....
• the g-factors in the ground state of hydrogen-like ions up to U⁹¹⁺ and comparing with accurate many-body and QED calculations.

For further information please contact H.-J.Kluge.
For any comments please mail to W.Quint.

March 5, 2004