Open Positions for PhD students

The international HITRAP Collaboration is looking for a PhD student to participate in the experimental research programme on atomic physics with trapped highly charged ions up to fully stripped uranium ions (U⁹²⁺), which includes: laser spectroscopy, mass measurements, g-factor measurements, recoil-ion momentum spectroscopy, and atomic collision studies.

HITRAP is an ion-trap facility for experiments on highly charged ions which is being constructed at the accelerator facility at GSI. GSI is an institute for heavy-ion research. In the experiment highly charged ions will be stored, cooled and investigated in the magnetic field of a Penning trap. The experiments apply modern techniques like:

• production and storage of highly charged ions
• detection of single particles
• ion-trap technology
• accelerator technology
• low-temperature physics
• rf- and microwave technology
• superconducting magnets

Duration: up to 3 years
Start: as soon as possible