SHIPTRAP: A capture and storage facility on its way towards an RIB-facility

Abstract

Abstract. First off-line tests at the ion trap facility SHIPTRAP took place. The facility is being set up to deliver very clean and cooled beams of singly-charged recoil ions produced at the SHIP velocity filter at GSI, Darmstadt. SHIPTRAP consists of a gas cell for stopping and thermalizing high-energy recoil ions from SHIP, an rf ion guide for extraction of the ions from the gas cell, a linear rf trap for accumulation and bunching of the ions, and a Penning trap for isobaric purification. The physics programme of the SHIPTRAP facility comprises mass spectrometry, nuclear spectroscopy, laser spectroscopy and chemistry of transeinsteinium elements. The progress in testing the subsystems separately and in combinations is reported.

Ion-molecule reactions of Ru+ and Os+ with oxygen in a Penning trap

“…An Ion Cyclotron Resonance (ICR or Penning) trap is currently being installed behind the velocity filter SHIP [1,5] at GSI in Darmstadt, Germany. This new apparatus, SHIPTRAP [10], will be suitable for future experiments on the heaviest elements. The reaction recoils, which are produced by irradiation of thin target foils by use of the heavy-ion linear accelerator UNILAC, are pre-selected with SHIP.…”