Welcome to the homepage of the
Stored and Cooled Ions Division
Director: Prof. Dr. Klaus Blaum

The experimental working group of the division is concerned with precision experiments on stored and cooled ions as well as with the investigation of fundamental processes of molecular ions. For this purpose short-lived radionuclides, highly-charged ions or simple molecular ions are trapped in Penning traps and storage rings under conditions as they also occur in space. Another main research field of the division is the development of novel storage, cooling and detection techniques for future experiments.

Precision experiments with ion traps and precision laser spectroscopy

	High-precision mass spectrometry
	g-factor measurements with highly-charged ions and proton/antiproton
	Collinear laser spectroscopy of short-lived nuclides

 

Molecular quantum dynamics and stored ion beams

	Atomic and molecular quantum dynamics
	Ultra-cold photocathode electron beams
	UV and soft x-ray photodynamics of molecular ions

 

Stored and cooled ion instrumentation

	FT-ICR detection for the KATRIN experiment
	Ion sources, accelerators and storage rings
	Penning trap facilities for future accelerator facilities