Hannover 2016 – wissenschaftliches Programm
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Q: Fachverband Quantenoptik und Photonik
Q 44: Precision spectroscopy of atoms and ions (with A)
Q 44.21: Poster
Mittwoch, 2. März 2016, 16:30–19:00, Empore Lichthof
Coulomb crystallized highly charged ions for fundamental physics research — •Lisa Schmöger1,2, Oscar O. Versolato1,2, Maria Schwarz1,2, Matthias Kohnen2, Alexander Windberger1, Baptist Piest1, Stefanie Feuchtenbeiner1, Jofre Pedregosa-Gutierrez4, Tobias Leopold2, Thomas M. Baumann1, Michael Drewsen5, Joachim Ullrich1,3, Piet O. Schmidt2,3, and José R. Crespo López-Urrutia1 — 1Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany — 2Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, QUEST, Braunschweig, Germany — 3Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany — 4Aix-Marseille Université, France — 5Aarhus University, Denmark
Production of cold, strongly localized highly charged ions (HCIs) has been an experimental challenge for two decades. We succeeded in re-trapping and sympathetically cooling HCIs [1] - produced with an electron beam ion trap - in our cryogenic radiofrequency linear Paul trap. The strongly suppressed thermal motion (mK scale) of the co-crystallized HCIs will be a great advantage for high precision laser spectroscopy of forbidden transitions in HCI. Those are particularly interesting both for fundamental research, such as searching for physics beyond the Standard Model, and for technological applications such as high accuracy atomic optical clocks. Our first test experiment will be the study of the 2P3/2-2P1/2 M1 transition in Ar13+ at 441nm.
L. Schmöger, et al., Science 347, 6227 (2015)