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MO: Fachverband Molekülphysik

MO 17: Posters 2: Cold Molecules and Clusters

MO 17.3: Poster

Wednesday, March 7, 2018, 16:15–18:15, Orangerie

Generation of charged water clusters for hybrid trap experiments — •Jan Trautmann¹, Nina Beier¹, Henry Lopez¹, Jonas Tauch¹, Bastian Holkemeier¹, Roland Wester², and Matthias Weidemüller^1,3 — ¹Physikalisches Institut, Universität Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 226, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany — ²Institut für Ionenphysik und Angewandte Physik, Universität Innsbruck, Technikerstraße 25/3, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria — ³University of Science and Technology of China, Shanghai Branch, Shanghai 201315, China

We present a novel design of a pulsed plasma discharge ion source for the creation of a vast variety of anions, especially hydrated water clusters. The ions are produced inside a glow discharge plasma and characterised via a Wiley-McLaren mass spectrometer. We report the successful creation of different species of anions from various gas compositions. In future experiments, the water clusters ions will be stored in a hybrid atom-ion trap for studies of chemical reactions at ultralow temperatures.