https://doi.org/10.1140/epjad/i2005-06-122-1
ENAM 2004
TITAN project status report and a proposal for a new cooling method of highly charged ions
1
TRIUMF National Laboratory, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2
Department of Physics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
3
University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
4
Department of Physics, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
5
Department of Physics, University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany
* e-mail: JDilling@triumf.ca
Received:
11
March
2005
Accepted:
15
March
2005
Published online:
26
July
2005
The TITAN facility for precision mass measurements of short-lived isotopes is currently being constructed at the ISAC radioactive beam facility at TRIUMF, Vancouver, Canada. Current status and developments in the project are reported. A new method for cooling of highly charged ions (HCI) with singly charged ions in a Penning trap, critically needed for precision measurements, is presented. Estimates show that the technique is promising and can be applied to cooling of highly charged short-lived isotope ions without recombination losses.
PACS: 07.75.+h Mass spectrometers – / 21.10.Dr Binding energies and masses – / 32.10.Bi Atomic masses, mass spectra, abundances, and isotopes – / 52.27.Jt Nonneutral plasmas –
© Società Italiana di Fisica and Springer-Verlag, 2005
