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P.O. Box 10 39 80
69029 Heidelberg
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Saupfercheckweg 1
Building: Gentner lab,
room 134
69117 Heidelberg

 

Contact  Contact


Tel.: +49 6221 516-851
Fax: +49 6221 516-852
Postal Address
Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics
P.O. Box 10 39 80
69029 Heidelberg
Visitor Address
Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics
Saupfercheckweg 1
Building: Gentner lab,
room 134
69117 Heidelberg

 Press

28.02.24
Almudena Arcones Max-Planck-Fellow
The President of the Max Planck Society has appointed Prof. Dr. Almudena Arcones from the Technische Universität (TU) Darmstadt as a Max Planck Fellow. ... >

 News

19.12.23
World record mass measurement and QED test by ALPHATRAP and PENTATRAP
Quantum electrodynamics (QED) is part of the Standard Model of particle physics, which has the ambitious goal of describing all physical effects with the exception of gravity. Tests of the Standard Model are of interest ... >
01.12.23
PENTATRAP identifies a metastable state in highly charged lead
Modern atomic clocks are among the most accurate measurement tools. They are the basis of advanced technology like the GPS system. The invention of the frequency comb opened the path to atomic clocks ... >

 Events

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 Teaching

Mandatory Seminar SS24
"Key experiments in quantum science"
heiCO external link | PhÜ external link
Advanced seminar "Stored and Cooled Ions"
SS24: fortnightly, on Wednesdays 15:00, Central Seminar Room and Zoom ... >

 

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

  • PENTATRAP trap tower
  • PENTATRAP Penning trap mass spectrometer
  • ALPHATRAP trap tower
  • ALPHATRAP Penning trap precision lab
  • A liquid-nitrogen-cooled GaAs photocathode producing electron beams with internal temperatures down to 10 K
  • 3D drawing of the CSR (August 2019)
  • View onto the CSR just before its commissioning at cryogenic temperatures in April 2015
  • Copper strips distribute the cold to the experimental vacuum chambers of the CSR
  • CAD drawing of the laser photodetachment line for injection of neutral atomic or molecular beams into the CSR
  • Artist's view of the reaction between protonated water and electrons in the CSR
  • Gold-plated mirror for a novel detector module in mid-infrared at the Cryogenic Trap for Fast ion beams (CTF)
  • The cryogenic ion trap used as a prototype for the CSR

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