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Status of deceleration and laser spectroscopy of highly charged ions at HITRAP |
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| Authors: | Zoran Andelkovic Gerhard Birkl Svetlana Fedotova Volker Hannen Frank Herfurth Kristian König Nikita Kotovskiy Bernhard Maaß Jonas Vollbrecht Tobias Murböck Dennis Neidherr Wilfried Nörtershäuser Stefan Schmidt Manuel Vogel Gleb Vorobjev Christian Weinheimer |
| Affiliation: | 1. Research School of Chemistry, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia 2. School of Physical, Environmental and Mathematical Sciences, UNSW Canberra at the Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra, BC, ACT 2610, Australia 3. Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation, Lucas Heights, NSW 2234, Australia |
| Abstract: | Heavy few-electron ions are relatively simple systems in terms of electron structure and offer unique opportunities to conduct experiments under extremely large electromagnetic fields that exist around their nuclei. However, the preparation of highly charged ions (HCI) has remained the major challenge for experiments. As an extension of the existing GSI accelerator facility, the HITRAP facility was conceived as a multi-stage decelerator for HCI produced at high velocity. It is designed to prepare bunches of around 105 HCI and to deliver them at low energies to various experiments. One of these experiments is SpecTrap, aiming for laser spectroscopy of trapped, cold HCI. We present the latest results on deceleration of ions in a radio-frequency quadrupole, synchrotron cooling of electrons in a trap as a preparation step for the prospective electron cooling of the HCI decelerated in HITRAP, as well as laser cooling of singly charged Mg ions for sympathetic cooling of HCI in SpecTrap. |
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