The exploration of the unique properties of stored and cooled beams of highly-charged ions
as provided by heavy-ion storage rings has opened novel and fascinating research …

Storage rings have been employed over three decades in various kinds of nuclear and
atomic physics experiments with highly charged ions. Storage ring operation and precision …

Abstract The Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR) will be the accelerator-based
flagship research facility in many basic sciences and their applications in Europe for the …

In the last two and a half decades ion storage rings have proven to be powerful tools for
precision experiments with unstable nuclides in the realm of nuclear structure and …

Precision study of few-electron, high-Z ions is a privileged field for probing high-field, bound-
state quantum electrodynamics (BSQED). However, the accuracy of such tests is plagued by …

A fully relativistic approach to evaluating the correlation effects in highly charged ions is
presented. The interelectronic-interaction contributions of first and second orders in 1/Z are …

High-precision QED calculations of ground-state ionization energies are performed for all
boronlike ions with nuclear charge numbers in the range 16≤ Z≤ 96. Rigorous QED …

Quantum electrodynamics in very strong Coulomb fields is one scope which has not yet
been tested experimentally with sufficient accuracy to really determine whether the …

We present research program and project for high-resolution wavelength-dispersive
spectrometer dedicated to low-energy X-ray spectroscopy at the electron cooler of the …

The concept of a relatively new type of energy sensitive detectors, namely calorimetric low
temperature detectors, which measure the temperature rise of an absorber due to the impact …