1. Lifetimes and g-factors of the HFS states in H-like and Li-like bismuth.
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Volker Hannen, Jonas Vollbrecht, Zoran Andelkovic, Carsten Brandau, Andreas Dax, Wolfgang Geithner, Christopher Geppert, Christian Gorges, Michael Hammen, Simon Kaufmann, Kristian König, Yuri A Litvinov, Matthias Lochmann, Bernhard Maaß, Johann Meisner, Tobias Murböck, Rodolfo Sánchez, Matthias Schmidt, Stefan Schmidt, and Markus Steck
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BISMUTH ,PULSED lasers ,STORAGE rings ,HEAVY ions ,MAGNETIC fields ,CHARGED particle accelerators - Abstract
The LIBELLE experiment performed at the experimental storage ring at the GSI Helmholtz Center for Heavy Ion Research in Darmstadt, Germany, has successfully determined the ground state hyperfine (HFS) splittings in hydrogen-like () and lithium-like () bismuth. The study of HFS transitions in highly charged ions enables precision tests of QED in extreme electric and magnetic fields otherwise not attainable in laboratory experiments. Besides the transition wavelengths the time-resolved detection of fluorescence photons following the excitation of the ions by a pulsed laser system also allows the extraction of lifetimes of the upper HFS levels and g-factors of the bound 1s and 2s electrons for both charge states. While the lifetime of the upper HFS state in has already been measured in earlier experiments, an experimental value for lifetime of this state in is reported for the first time in this work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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