For the beamtime on laser spectroscopy of highly charged bismuth ions, a precision high-voltage multiplier (orange tube) and a ripple probe (in front, on blue support), both from PTB Braunschweig, were installed at the high-voltage terminal of the ESR electron cooler by Johann Meisner and Matthias Schmidt from the PTB. go

The papers “Precision atomic physics techniques for nuclear physics with radioactive beams” written by Klaus Blaum, Jens Dilling und Wilfried Nörtershäuser based on their contributions to the Nobel Symposium on “Physics with Radioactive Beams” and “First observation of the ground-state hyperfine transition in 209Bi80+” by W. Nörtershäuser and coworkers were selected to be included in the Physica Scripta Highlights of 2013. go

The annual meeting of the COLLAPS collaboration took place at TU Darmstadt on 26.-27.02.2014 with 17 participants from CERN/ISOLDE, Leuven, Liverpool, Heidelberg, Mainz and Darmstadt. go

The IVth volume of the “Euroschool Lectures on Exotic Beams” has appeared. It includes a chapter on “Nuclear Charge Radii of Light Elements and Recent Developments in Collinear Laser Spectroscopy” by W. Nörtershäuser and Ch. Geppert. go

On Monday January 27th, a new high-voltage divider was delivered to the Institute of Nuclear Physics at TU Darmstadt. The divider of the company Ohm-Labs is supposed to measure high voltages up to 250 kV at the electron cooler of the ESR storage ring with an anticipated accuracy of better than 10^-4. go

The last issue of the journal “Reviews of Modern Physics” exhibits a figure from our colloquiums article go

Michael Hammen has successfully defended his doctoral thesis with the title “Spins, Moments and Radii of Cd isotopes”. go

Nadja Frömmgen has successfully defended her doctoral thesis with the title “Kollineare Laserspektroskopie an radioaktiven Praseodymionen und Cadmiumatomen” (Collinear Laser Spectrsocopy of radioactive Praseodymium ions and Cadmium atoms). go

Recently the last components of the low energy beamline at HITRAP have been assembled and first tests of transporting highly charged ions towards the SpecTrap Penning trap have been performed. go