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@PHDTHESIS{Imgram:276718,
author = {Imgram, Phillip},
title = {{H}igh-precision laser spectroscopy of helium-like carbon
$^{12}${C}$^{4+}$},
school = {TU Darmstadt},
type = {Dissertation},
address = {Darmstadt},
publisher = {TU Darmstadt},
reportid = {GSI-2023-00327},
pages = {71},
year = {2023},
note = {Dissertation, TU Darmstadt, 2022},
abstract = {The size of an atomic nucleus is a fundamental observable
and defined by the distribution of the neutrons and protons
composing the nucleus and the respective mean-square radii.
The precise investigation of the nuclear size across the
chart of nuclides delivers important benchmarks for nuclear
structure theory and tests our fundamental knowledge of
matter. In contrast to matter and neutron radii, the nuclear
charge radius can be probed through the well-known
electromagnetic interaction. Different techniques have been
developed over time to measure nuclear charge radii such as
elastic electron scattering or muonic atom spectroscopy.
While these techniques are typically limited to stable
nuclei, collinear laser spectroscopy and resonant ionization
spectroscopy are used to determine nuclear charge radii of
short-lived radioactive isotopes relative to a reference
charge radius of a stable isotope. In some cases, this can
limit the uncertainty of the obtained charge radii of
radioactive nuclei to the uncertainty of the reference
measurements from elastic electron scattering or muonic atom
spectroscopy. To overcome this limit in light mass nuclei
like 10, 11B, an all-optical approach for the charge radius
determination purely from laser spectroscopy measurements
and non-relativistic QED calculations was tested in this
work with the well-known nucleus of 12C through laser
excitation of helium-like 12C4+ from the metastable 1s2s 3S1
state with a lifetime of 21 ms to the 1s2p 3PJ states. The
high-precision collinear laser spectroscopy was performed at
the Collinear Apparatus for Laser Spectroscopy and Applied
Science (COALA), situated at the Institute for Nuclear
Physics at the Technical University Darmstadt. In order to
produce the the highly charged C4+ ions, a new electron beam
ion source including a Wien filter for charge/mass
separation was installed and commissioned at COALA.
Additionally, a new switchyard and beam diagnostics were
designed, built and installed. The 1s2s 3S1 → 1s2p 3PJ
rest-frame transition frequencies were determined with less
than 2 MHz uncertainty through quasi-simultaneous collinear
and anticollinear laser spectroscopy. These transition
frequencies are in excellent agreement with state-of-the-art
ab initio atomic structure calculations and an all-optical
nuclear charge radius of 12C was extracted. Its accuracy is
limited by theory, which must be improved by two orders of
magnitude before the experimental uncertainty becomes
significant again. At that point, the accuracy of the
extracted charge radius would have already outperformed all
previous measurements of this observable. Furthermore, the
high precision of this work enabled the estimation of the
next missing order in the atomic structure calculations and
the transition frequencies from this work can be used
together with ongoing measurements in 13C4+ for a
conventional determination of the mean-square charge radius
difference δ⟨r2⟩12,13 between 12C and 13C which has not
been measured so far by laser spectroscopy.},
cin = {ATP},
cid = {I:(DE-Ds200)ATP-20051214OR020},
pnm = {631 - Matter – Dynamics, Mechanisms and Control
(POF4-631) / SFB 1245 A01 - Präzisionsmessungen zur
Struktur leichter Kerne (A01) (289442692)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-631 / G:(GEPRIS)289442692},
experiment = {$EXP:(DE-Ds200)no_experiment-20200803$},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)11},
urn = {urn:nbn:de:tuda-tuprints-230828},
doi = {10.26083/TUPRINTS-00023082},
url = {https://repository.gsi.de/record/276718},
}