General description of our research

The different research projects are dealing both experimentally and theoretically with fundamental interactions of ions with matter and the atomic structure of atoms and ions. In the experimental activities we use beams of highly charged ions from the electron beam ion source (EBIS) and stored ions in a synchrotron ion-cooler storage ring (CRYRING). With slow highly charged ions we study:

surface and cluster interactions
multiple electron transfer reactions
mass spectrometry of highly charged ions in a Penning trap

In the ring we perform experiments with cooled stored ions

on electron-ion recombination and laser assisted excitation and recombination
on fast atomic collisions (single and multiple electron capture, ionization, recoil momentum spectroscopy) with internal target.
on laser spectroscopy, and lifetime measurements of metastable states at stored heavy ions.

In theoretical atomic physics we do calculations on:

multiple excited states in atoms and ions
negative ions and Photodetachment