| Abstract: | New recombination experiments with merged cold beams of electrons and atomic ions have been carried out at the storage ring
facilities TSR in Heidelberg, ESR in Darmstadt, and CRYRING in Stockholm. A brief overview is given on the recent activities
in which the Giessen group was engaged. Topics of this research were dielectronic recombination (DR) of astrophysically relevant
ions, recombination of highly charged ions with respect to cooling losses in storage rings, field effects on DR, search for
interference effects in photorecombination of ions, correlation effects in DR of low-Z ions, spectroscopy of high-Z ions by DR, and lifetimes of metastable states deduced from DR experiments.
This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. |
