Experiments on highly charged heavy ions in conjunction with exotic atoms

P. Indelicato (1) , Martino Trassinelli (2) , D. F. Anagnostopoulos (3) , S. Boucard (1) , D. S. Covita (4) , G. Borchert , A. Dax (5, 6) , J. P. Egger , D. Gotta (7) , A. Gruber (8) , A. Hirtl (8) , M. Hennebach , H. Fuhrmann (8) , E. -O. Le Bigot , Y. -W Liu , B. Manil (9) , N. Nelms , S. Schlesser (1) , J. M. F. Dos Santos , L. M. Simons (5) , L. Stingelin (5) , J. Veloso (4) , A. Wasser (8) , A. Wells , J. Zmeskal (8)

1 LKB (Jussieu) - Laboratoire Kastler Brossel
2 INSP - Institut des Nanosciences de Paris
3 DMSE - Department of Material Science and Engineering
4 Departamento de Física
5 PSI - Paul Scherrer Institute
6 Physics Department
7 KFA - Institut für Kernphysik
8 IMEP - Institut für Mittelenergiephysik
9 LPL - Laboratoire de Physique des Lasers

We demonstrate how combining highly-charged ions and exotic atoms measurements can provide high-accuracy information on particle properties, like the pion mass, on interactions, like the pion-proton strong interaction at low energy, and bound-state QED in strong fields. The use of highly-charged ion X-rays emitted by the plasma inside a super-conducting ion source provides a very detailed characterization of the response function of the X-ray spectrometer used to study exotic atoms, allowing for very accurate measurements. Conversely the use of the same high-resolution and high transmission spectrometer provides very accurate measurements of X-ray lines of few-electron ions.

Domaines: Matière Condensée [cond-mat]

P. Indelicato, Martino Trassinelli, D. F. Anagnostopoulos, S. Boucard, D. S. Covita, et al.. Experiments on highly charged heavy ions in conjunction with exotic atoms. Symposium in Honor of Ingvar Lindgrens 75th Birthday, Jun 2006, Gothenburg, Unknown Region. pp.217-235, ⟨10.1016/S0065-3276(07)53011-X⟩. ⟨hal-01281097⟩