HITRAP Facility and Experiments - Status and Future Perspectives

Deceleration of highly charged ions is a mode for the operation for the ESR storage ring at GSI which is required for various types of experiments. The special requirement for HITRAP is the deceleration down to an energy of 4 MeV/u precisely, which is close to the minimum design value, in combination with fast extraction. The deceleration can start from any injection energy, but for efficient...

HITRAP Decelerator Status

The HITRAP decelerator facility aims to decelerate and cool heavy, highly-charged ions (HCI) like U$^{92+}$ [1]. After creation of the high charge states at relativistic energies, HITRAP decelerates these ions via a consecutive arrangement of linear deceleration stages and a cylindrical Penning trap. Within this so-called cooling trap, the ions can be cooled to low temperatures before they are...

The HITRAP facility is designed to decelerate and cool a bunch of about 10$^5$ heavy, highly charged ions (HCI). Produced by stripping at high energy, the HCI are decelerated eventually in a linear decelerator down to 6$\,$keV/u and captured within a cylindrical Penning trap. In that trap the HCI can be cooled using electron cooling before being transferred to subsequent experiments [1]. If...