TACTICA

TACTICa stands for Trapped And Cooled Thorium Ion spectroscopy via Calcium

For details, check out TACTICa page on the HIM website.

Publications:

Karin Groot-Berning, Felix Stopp, Georg Jacob, Dmitry Budker, Raphael Haas, Dennis Renisch, Jörg Runke, Petra Thörle-Pospiech, Christoph Düllmann, and Ferdinand Schmidt-Kaler,
Trapping and sympathetic cooling of single thorium ions for spectroscopy
Phys. Rev. A 99, 023420 (2019); arXiv:1807.05975

Felix Stopp, Karin Groot-Berning, Georg Jacob, Dmitry Budker, Raphael Haas, Dennis Renisch, Jörg Runke, Petra Thörle-Pospiech, Christoph E. Düllmann, Ferdinand Schmidt-Kaler,
Catching, trapping and in-situ-identification of thorium ions inside Coulomb crystals of 40Ca+ ions,
Hyp. Int. 240, 33 (2019)

Principal Investigators:

D. Budker (Helmholtz Institute Mainz, PRISMA+ Cluster of Excellence, and the JGU QUANTUMgroup),
Ch.E. Düllmann (Helmholtz Institute Mainz, PRISMA+ Cluster of Excellence and Institute of Nuclear Chemistry, JGU Mainz, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung Darmstadt)
F. Schmidt-Kaler (Helmholtz Institute Mainz, JGU, Institute for Physics, PRISMA+ Cluster of Excellence)