Highly charged ions: Optical clocks and applications in fundamental physics

MG Kozlov, MS Safronova… - Reviews of Modern …, 2018 - APS
Recent developments in frequency metrology and optical clocks have been based on
electronic transitions in atoms and singly charged ions as references. The control over all …

[HTML][HTML] Heavy-ion storage rings and their use in precision experiments with highly charged ions

M Steck, YA Litvinov - Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 2020 - Elsevier
Storage rings have been employed over three decades in various kinds of nuclear and
atomic physics experiments with highly charged ions. Storage ring operation and precision …

New horizons: Scalar and vector ultralight dark matter

D Antypas, A Banerjee, C Bartram… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
The last decade has seen unprecedented effort in dark matter model building at all mass
scales coupled with the design of numerous new detection strategies. Transformative …

Stringent test of QED with hydrogen-like tin

J Morgner, B Tu, CM König, T Sailer, F Heiße, H Bekker… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Inner-shell electrons naturally sense the electric field close to the nucleus, which can reach
extreme values beyond 1015 V cm− 1 for the innermost electrons. Especially in few-electron …

Direct measurement of the 3He+ magnetic moments

A Schneider, B Sikora, S Dickopf, M Müller… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Helium-3 has nowadays become one of the most important candidates for studies in
fundamental physics,–, nuclear and atomic structure,, magnetometry and metrology, as well …

Precision spectroscopy on 9Be overcomes limitations from nuclear structure

S Dickopf, B Sikora, A Kaiser, M Müller, S Ulmer… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Many powerful tests of the standard model of particle physics and searches for new physics
with precision atomic spectroscopy are hindered by our lack of knowledge of nuclear …

Expanding nuclear physics horizons with the Gamma Factory

D Budker, JC Berengut, VV Flambaum… - Annalen der …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Gamma Factory (GF) is an ambitious proposal, currently explored within the
CERN Physics Beyond Colliders program, for a source of photons with energies up to≈ 400 …

QED tests with highly charged ions

P Indelicato - Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
The current status of bound state quantum electrodynamics calculations of transition
energies for few-electron ions is reviewed. Evaluation of one and two body QED correction …

The ALPHATRAP experiment

S Sturm, I Arapoglou, A Egl, M Höcker… - The European Physical …, 2019 - Springer
The ALPHATRAP experiment at the Max-Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg
aims at probing the validity of quantum electrodynamics in extremely strong electromagnetic …

Empirical determination of the Bohr-Weisskopf effect in cesium and improved tests of precision atomic theory in searches for new physics

G Sanamyan, BM Roberts, JSM Ginges - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
The finite distribution of the nuclear magnetic moment across the nucleus gives a
contribution to the hyperfine structure known as the Bohr-Weisskopf (BW) effect. We have …