Radioactive decays of stored highly charged ions

Radioactive decays of highly-charged ions

Stored Particle Atomic Physics Research Collaboration: Atomic Physics with Stored Highly-Charged Heavy Ions at the Future FAIR Facility

The envisioned program of the research collaboration SPARC (Stored Particle Atomic Research Collaboration at the future GSI accelerator facility FAIR will be discussed. This future international accelerator Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research has key features that offer a range of new and challenging opportunities for atomic physics and related fields. In SPARC we plan experiments in two m...

Radiobiological Effects of Highly Charged Ions

The radiobiological effects of highly-charged-ion beams are of interest for tumortherapy and for radioprotection in space. In tumor therapy, high-energy protons and carbon ions exhibit an inverse dose profile, i.e. an increase of energy deposition with penetration depth. This allows a greater tumor dose for protons and carbon ions than for photons. In addition, for the heavier carbon ions, this...

Parity Violation effects in highly-charged ions

Parity-nonconserving (PNC) atomic effects originate from the electroweak interaction of atomic electrons with the nucleus via Z-boson exchange. Comparing experimental results with theoretical predictions of the standard model allows to search for ”new physics” beyond the standard model (e.g., a second Z-boson or new fermions) [1]. In the case of neutral atoms here is the discrepancy between the...

Atomic Parity-Violation in Highly-Charged Ions

The investigation of parity-violation (PV) in forbidden atomic transitions is an active and fundamental research area, especially for its implications on the physics beyond the Standard Model [1]. Atomic transitions may be employed to study PV effects originating from weak neutral currents, i.e. due to the exchange of a Z boson between a nucleon of the nucleus and a bound electron. Experiments ...