Towards an Intrinsic Doppler Correction for X-ray Spectroscopy of Stored Ions at CRYRING@ESR

Felix Martin Kroger*, Günter Weber, Steffen Allgeier, Zoran Andelkovic, Sonja Bernitt, Alexander Borovik Jr., Louis Duval, Andreas Fleischmann, Oliver Forstner, Marvin Friedrich, Jan Glorius, Alexandre Gumberidze, Christoph Hahn, Frank Herfurth, Daniel Hengstler, Marc Oliver Herdrich, Pierre-Michel Hillenbrand, Anton Kalinin, Markus Kiffer, Maximilian KubullekPatricia Kuntz, Michael Lestinsky, Bastian Loher, Esther Babette Menz, Tobias Over, Nikolaos Petridis, Philip Pfafflein, Stefan Ringleb, Ragandeep Singh Sidhu, Uwe Spillmann, Sergiy Trotsenko, Andrzej Warczak, Binghui Zhu, Christian Enss, Thomas Stohlker

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We report on a new experimental approach for the Doppler correction of X-rays emitted by heavy ions, using novel metallic magnetic calorimeter detectors which uniquely combine a high spectral resolution with a broad bandwidth acceptance. The measurement was carried out at the electron cooler of CRYRING@ESR at GSI, Darmstadt, Germany. The X-ray emission associated with the radiative recombination of cooler electrons and stored hydrogen-like uranium ions was investigated using two novel microcalorimeter detectors positioned under 0∘ and 180∘ with respect to the ion beam axis. This new experimental setup allowed the investigation of the region of the N, M → L transitions in helium-like uranium with a spectral resolution unmatched by previous studies using conventional semiconductor X-ray detectors. When assuming that the rest-frame energy of at least a few of the recorded transitions is well-known from theory or experiments, a precise measurement of the Doppler shifted line positions in the laboratory system can be used to determine the ion beam velocity using only spectral information. The spectral resolution achievable with microcalorimeter detectors should, for the first time, allow intrinsic Doppler correction to be performed for the precision X-ray spectroscopy of stored heavy ions. A comparison with data from a previous experiment at the ESR electron cooler, as well as the conventional method of conducting Doppler correction using electron cooler parameters, will be discussed
Original languageEnglish
Article number22
Pages (from-to)1-9
Number of pages9
JournalAtoms
Volume11
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 28 Jan 2023

Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)

  • highly charged heavy ions
  • ion storage rings
  • precision X-ray spectroscopy

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