Atomic Processes in Nanostructures Studied by Highly Charged Heavy Ions
Person photo Prof Reinhold Schuch
Atomic Physics (Department of Physics)
Funding source: EU - INTAS, International Association for the promotion of co-operation with scientists from the New Independent States of the former Soviet Union
Period: 2/1/07 - 1/31/09
Funding: 60000 EUR
Description:
The extremely high charge, exotic particles, and high beam intensity that becomes available at the new FAIR facility will allow study of non-linear effects in insulator irradiation with charges particles. This is the subject of a combined effort of physicists from Sweden, Russia, Germany and Netherlands. We propose to investigate the transmission and guiding of ions though capillaries of different forms (flat, cylindrical and conic) created in different materials (carbon, AIO3, glass and plastic). These experiments will be in the forefront of the future experiments and planned to be performed with low.energy extremely high-charged ions and antiprotons at the FAIR/FLAIR facility. One interesting result of the proposed research could be non-electromagnetic lens for an ion beam of submicron size. The realisation of such an instrument is of importance for developing a new ion focusing elements for injection into traps or for surface investigation methods.
  
Partner Org. (4)
Research fields (1)
  
GSI Institute for Heavy Ion Research in Darmstadt
, Germany
Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
, Russia
Lomonosov Moscow State University
, Russia
University of Groningen
, Netherlands