Development of a recoil ion source providing slow Th ions including ${}^{229(m)}$Th in a broad charge state distribution

Raphael Haas, Tom Kieck, Dmitry Budker +7

Ions of the isomer ${}^{229m}$Th are a topic of high interest for the construction of a "nuclear clock" and in the field of fundamental physics for testing symmetries of nature. They…