Journal article
Authors list: Hannen, Volker; Vollbrecht, Jonas; Andelkovic, Zoran; Brandau, Carsten; Dax, Andreas; Geithner, Wolfgang; Geppert, Christopher; Gorges, Christian; Hammen, Michael; Kaufmann, Simon; Koenig, Kristian; Litvinov, Yuri A.; Lochmann, Matthias; Maass, Bernhard; Meisner, Johann; Murboeck, Tobias; Sanchez, Rodolfo; Schmidt, Matthias; Schmidt, Stefan; Steck, Markus; Stoehlker, Thomas; Thompson, Richard C.; Trageser, Christian; Ullmann, Johannes; Weinheimer, Christian; Noertershauser, Wilfried
Publication year: 2019
Journal: Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics
Volume number: 52
Issue number: 8
ISSN: 0953-4075
eISSN: 1361-6455
Open access status: Hybrid
DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6455/ab0ef0
Publisher: IOP Publishing
Abstract:
The LIBELLE experiment performed at the experimental storage ring at the GSI Helmholtz Center for Heavy Ion Research in Darmstadt, Germany, has successfully determined the ground state hyperfine (HFS) splittings in hydrogen-like (Bi-209(82+)) and lithium-like (Bi-209(80+)) bismuth. The study of HFS transitions in highly charged ions enables precision tests of QED in extreme electric and magnetic fields otherwise not attainable in laboratory experiments. Besides the transition wavelengths the time-resolved detection of fluorescence photons following the excitation of the ions by a pulsed laser system also allows the extraction of lifetimes of the upper HFS levels and g-factors of the bound 1s and 2s electrons for both charge states. While the lifetime of the upper HFS state in Bi-209(82+) has already been measured in earlier experiments, an experimental value for lifetime of this state in Bi-209(80+) is reported for the first time in this work.
Citation Styles
Harvard Citation style: Hannen, V., Vollbrecht, J., Andelkovic, Z., Brandau, C., Dax, A., Geithner, W., et al. (2019) Lifetimes and g-factors of the HFS states in H-like and Li-like bismuth, Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, 52(8), Article 085003. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6455/ab0ef0
APA Citation style: Hannen, V., Vollbrecht, J., Andelkovic, Z., Brandau, C., Dax, A., Geithner, W., Geppert, C., Gorges, C., Hammen, M., Kaufmann, S., Koenig, K., Litvinov, Y., Lochmann, M., Maass, B., Meisner, J., Murboeck, T., Sanchez, R., Schmidt, M., Schmidt, S., ...Noertershauser, W. (2019). Lifetimes and g-factors of the HFS states in H-like and Li-like bismuth. Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics. 52(8), Article 085003. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6455/ab0ef0
Keywords
g-factors; highly charged ions; HYPERFINE; hyperfine transitions; LIFETIMES
