The Stockholm EBIT for precision experiments at HITRAP

According to an agreement between Stockholm University and Helmholtz-Institute Jena, the S-EBIT should be transferred for a series of experiments over an extended period of time to the Helmholtz Institute at Jena within the framework of the FAIR/SPARC collaboration. The high voltage electron beam ion trap S-EBIT shall provide highly charged ions - ultimately fully stripped heaviest ions up to uranium - for precision experiments and will also serve as a development platform for SPARC experiments at the future FAIR facility. The S-EBIT is currently being installed and will be commissioned at the experiment platform of the HITRAP facility at GSI and is expected to be moved to Jena in 2017/2018. At GSI it will not only be used as a standalone device but also serve as a source of highly charged heavy ions for HITRAP. This is of particular importance for the FAIR related shutdown period (2014 through 2017), where virtually no beam time will be provided for SIS18/ESR and consequently for the HITRAP facility. I will present an overview of the S-EBIT which is currently setting up and discuss its possible applications.