Electron affinities of atoms and structures of atomic negative ions

C Ning, Y Lu - Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
This Review presents electron affinities of atoms and structures of atomic negative ions. The
negative ion properties of many elements in the main groups of the Periodic Table were well …

Candidate for Laser Cooling of a Negative Ion: High-Resolution Photoelectron Imaging of

R Tang, R Si, Z Fei, X Fu, Y Lu, T Brage, H Liu, C Chen… - Physical review …, 2019 - APS
Laser cooling is a well-established technique for the creation of ensembles of ultracold
neutral atoms or positive ions. This ability has opened many exciting new research fields …

Laser cooling of molecular anions

P Yzombard, M Hamamda, S Gerber, M Doser… - Physical review …, 2015 - APS
We propose a scheme for laser cooling of negatively charged molecules. We briefly
summarize the requirements for such laser cooling and we identify a number of potential …

Storing keV Negative Ions for an Hour: The Lifetime of the Metastable level in

E Bäckström, D Hanstorp, OM Hole, M Kaminska… - Physical Review Letters, 2015 - APS
We use a novel electrostatic ion storage ring to measure the radiative lifetime of the upper
level in the 3 p 5 P 2 1/2 o→ 3 p 5 P 2 3/2 o spontaneous radiative decay in S-32 to be …

Electron affinity of uranium and bound states of opposite parity in its anion

R Tang, Y Lu, H Liu, C Ning - Physical Review A, 2021 - APS
The electronic structures of actinide systems are extremely complicated because of strong
electron correlations and relativistic effects. The atomic actinide anion poses even more …

Candidate for Laser Cooling of a Negative Ion: Observations of Bound-Bound Transitions in

CW Walter, ND Gibson, DJ Matyas, C Crocker… - Physical review …, 2014 - APS
Despite the tremendous advances in laser cooling of neutral atoms and positive ions, no
negatively charged ion has been directly laser cooled. The negative ion of lanthanum, La …

Metastable states of observed in a cryogenic storage ring

D Müll, F Grussie, K Blaum, S George, J Goeck… - Physical Review A, 2021 - APS
We have used the Cryogenic Storage Ring (CSR) at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear
Physics to study long-lived metastable states of the silicon anion. A Si− beam of 58 keV …

Observation of electric-dipole transitions in the laser-cooling candidate and its application for cooling antiprotons

R Tang, R Si, Z Fei, X Fu, Y Lu, T Brage, H Liu, C Chen… - Physical Review A, 2021 - APS
Despite the fact that the laser-cooling method is a well-established technique to obtain
ultracold neutral atoms and atomic cations, it has rarely if ever been applied to atomic …

Experimental and theoretical studies of excited states in

MK Kristiansson, S Schiffmann, J Grumer, J Karls… - Physical Review A, 2021 - APS
The properties of atomic negative ions are to a large extent determined by electron-electron
correlation which makes them an ideal testing ground for atomic many-body physics. In this …

Ab initio multiconfiguration Dirac-Hartree-Fock calculations of the In and Tl electron affinities and their isotope shifts

R Si, S Schiffmann, K Wang, CY Chen, M Godefroid - Physical Review A, 2021 - APS
We report multiconfiguration Dirac-Hartree-Fock and relativistic configuration interaction
calculations on the thallium (Tl) electron affinity, as well as on the excited energy levels …