Lead-205 initially looks like a very promising candidate to be used as a chronometer for the early Solar System due to its unique position among astrophysically short-lived radionuclides as an s-only isotope probing the termination of the s process [1]. Unfortunately, the 2.3 keV 1/2− first excited state in $^{205}$Pb reduces the half-life in stellar environments by around 6 orders of...
It has been more than two decades since the first experimental demonstrations of the generation of relativistic electron beams produced by the interaction of ultra intense laser pulses with plasma [1]. Ever since, several research groups worldwide invested considerable effort towards detailing the Physics behind the mechanism of Laser Wakefield Acceleration (LWFA), that drives the formation...
The electrostatic Cryogenic Storage Ring (CSR) at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg offers unique possibilities to study electron recombination of internally cold molecular ions as well as low-charged heavy atomic ions. The CSR provides a cryogenic environment with vacuum chamber temperatures < 10 K, resulting in a low residual gas density. This enables storage of ion...
