accelerator development and the hard work of many colleagues to bring to fruition,” says Professor Yury Litvinov of GSI/FAIR, spokesperson of the experiment. “A plethora of groundbreaking techniques had to be

and pure 205 Tl 81+ ion beam and measure its decay with high precision,” said Professor Yuri A. Litvinov, spokesperson for the experiment and principal investigator of the European Research Council (ERC)

plasma physics. A comprehensive review on beta decay of highly charged ions can be found in: Yu. A. Litvinov & F. Bosch, “Beta decay of highly charged ions”, Rep. Prog. Phys. 74 (2011) 016301, doi: 10.108 [...] https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0009094 ). The present status of the research can be found in: Yu. A. Litvinov & R. J. Chen, “Radioactive decays of stored highly charged ions”, Eur. Phys. J. A59 (2023) 102, [...] been discovered in the ESR. Several measurements were conducted to date, for a review see: Yu. A. Litvinov & R. J. Chen, “Radioactive decays of stored highly charged ions”, Eur. Phys. J. A59 (2023) 102,

Geppert C., Glorius J., Hannen V., Heß R., Imgram P., Klammes S., König K., Leckenby G., Litvinov S., Litvinov Y. A., Lorentz B., Meisner J., Mohr K., Müller P., Passon S., Ratajczyk T., Rausch S., Roßbach [...] Dax, A., Geithner, W., Geppert, C., Gorges, C., Hammen, M., Hannen, V., Kaufmann, S., König, K., Litvinov, Y., Lochmann, M., Maaß, B., Meisner, J., Murböck, T., Sánchez, R., Schmidt, M., Schmidt, S., N

and CRYRING : Storage Ring Experiments Contacts: Dr. Michael Lestinsky (GSI) and Prof. Dr. Yury Litvinov (GSI, Universität zu Köln) HITRAP: Ion Trap Experiments Contacts: Priv.-Doz. Dr. Wolfgang Quint

outstanding scientist and one of the young stars in nuclear astrophysics research,” said Professor Yury Litvinov, spokesperson of the experiment. “His contribution has been decisive, and his expertise in storage