Research Group Wilfried Nörtershäuser

The measurement of the isomer shift and difference of charge radii between Al-26 and the isomer Al-26m has been published in Physical Review Letters with an Editor's suggestion and is featured in “Physics Viewpoint”.

Max Horst has successfully defended his doctoral thesis entitled „Laser Spectroscopy of 208Bi82+ and Commissioning of the HITRAP Cooling Trap" and passed the rigorosum.

Nuclear moments of the antimony isotopes 113−133 Sb that have been measured at COLLAPS are published in Physics Letters B and compared with phenomenological shell-model and ab initio calculations in the valence-space

Phillip Imgram and Max Horst were honored with Prizes of the Giersch Foundation: Phillip Imgram received one of the Giersch Outstanding Thesis Awards for his Dissertation and Max Horst a Giersch Excellence Award

Julian Palmes has completed his Master Thesis with the presentation „Collinear Laser Spectroscopy of singly charged strontium isotopes“. Congratulations!

The technique of “Radioactive Detection after Optical Pumping and Charge Exchange (ROC)”was very successfully demonstrated at the COLLAPS beamline at ISOLDE. The measurements of 53,54Ca shall be completed next year in a final beamtime.

Our group contributed with 3 posters and 3 talks to the ARIS Conference in the Pope's Palace in Avignon. COLLAPS results were additionally presented by our collaborator Liss Rodriguez in an invited talk.

The annual COLLAPS Collaboration meeting took place at CERN. After the years of the pandemic we enjoyed that it was finally again in person (for most of us).