22nd SPARC Topical Workshop

On behalf of the SpecTrap collaboration, I will present the physics and status of the SpecTrap experiment located at the HITRAP facility at GSI, Germany. The aim of the experiment is optical and near-optical precision spectroscopy of highly charged ions that are confined and cooled in a dedicated Penning trap. Highly charged ions of interest comprise Bi82+ for further studies in the ARTEMIS project, and few-electron 229Th for studies within the HiThor project.