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20032026
most citedHighly charged ions: optical clocks and applications in fundamental physics

314 citations · 2.4k across the 62 of their papers we have counts for

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62 papers

physics.atom-ph2026

X-ray and extreme-ultraviolet spectra from collisions of Ar and O ions with neutrals

Stepan Dobrodey, Chintan Shah, Sonja Bernitt +4

We present measurements of K-shell x-ray emission following charge exchange of fully ionized argon with various neutral gaseous targets at small collision energies inside an electr…

astro-ph.IM2025

A laboratory plasma experiment for X-ray astronomy using a compact electron beam ion trap (EBIT)

Yuki Amano, Leo Hirata, Moto Togawa +11

We present the basic performance and experimental results of an electron beam ion trap (JAXA-EBIT), newly introduced to the Japanese astronomical community. Accurate atomic data ar…

physics.atom-ph2025★ 1 cited

Enhanced One-Color-Two-Photon Resonant Ionization in Highly Charged Ions by Fine-Structure Effects

Moto Togawa, Chunhai Lyu, Chintan Shah +25

Ultraintense pulses from X-ray free-electron lasers can drive, within femtoseconds, multiple processes in the inner shells of atoms and molecules in all phases of matter. The ensui…

physics.atom-ph2025★ 3 cited

A cryogenic Paul trap for probing the nuclear isomeric excited state Th

Daniel Moritz, Kevin Scharl, Markus Wiesinger +16

While laser excitation of the nuclear isomeric transition in Th has been recently achieved for thorium atoms embedded in large-bandgap crystals, laser excitation and charac…

physics.atom-ph2025★ 6 cited

Testing inter-electronic interaction in lithium-like tin

Jonathan Morgner, Vladimir A. Yerokhin, Charlotte M. Konig +9

Magnetic moments of bound-electron systems are a sensitive tool for testing fundamental interactions. factors of lithium-like ions have been rigorously studied in recent years,…

physics.atom-ph2025

Comprehensive Laboratory Benchmark of K-shell Dielectronic Satellites of Fe XXV-XXI Ions

Chintan Shah, Pedro Amaro, Filipe Grilo +7

We report on comprehensive laboratory studies of the K-shell dielectronic recombination (DR) resonances of Fe XXV - XXI ions that prominently contribute to the hard X-ray spectrum…

physics.atom-ph2025★ 7 cited

Excited-state magnetic properties of carbon-like

Lukas J. Spieß, Shuying Chen, Alexander Wilzewski +13

We measured the -factor of the excited state in ion to be with a relative uncertainty of . The magnetic field…

physics.atom-ph2024

Hanle Effect for Lifetime Analysis: Li-like Ions

Jan Richter, Moto Togawa, José R. Crespo López-Urrutia +1

Accurate lifetime measurements of excited states of highly charged ions (HCIs) are essential for advancing diagnostics in both laboratory and astrophysical plasmas, especially in t…

physics.atom-ph2024

Hanle effect for lifetime determinations in the soft X-ray regime

Moto Togawa, Jan Richter, Chintan Shah +16

By exciting a series of transitions in helium-like nitrogen ions with linearly polarized mono…

physics.atom-ph2024

High-accuracy Measurements of Core-excited Transitions in Light Li-like Ions

Moto Togawa, Steffen Kühn, Chintan Shah +11

The transition energies of the two -core-excited soft X-ray lines (dubbed q and r) from to the respective upper levels an…

physics.atom-ph2024

Measurement of differential collisional excitation cross sections for the K emission of He-like oxygen

Filipe Grilo, Chintan Shah, José Marques +3

We measure the energy-differential cross sections for collisional excitation of the soft X-ray electric-dipole K () emission from He-like oxygen (O VII), using an electro…

physics.atom-ph2024★ 8 cited

Natural-linewidth measurements of the 3C and 3D soft-x-ray transitions in Ni XIX

Chintan Shah, Steffen Kühn, Sonja Bernitt +15

We used the monochromatic soft-x-ray beamline P04 at the synchrotron-radiation facility PETRA III to resonantly excite the strongest transitions in neon-like Ni XIX ions, $…

physics.atom-ph2024

Laboratory Benchmark of Dielectronic Recombination Satellites of Fe XVII

Gabriel J. Grell, Maurice A. Leutenegger, Pedro Amaro +2

We calculated cross sections for the dielectronic recombination (DR) satellite lines of Fe XVII and benchmarked our predictions with experimental cross sections of Fe XVII resonanc…

physics.atom-ph2024★ 13 cited

High-Precision Transition Energy Measurements of Neon-like Fe XVII Ions

Chintan Shah, Moto Togawa, Marc Botz +15

We improve by a factor of 4-20 the energy accuracy of the strongest soft X-ray transitions of Fe XVII ions by resonantly exciting them in an electron beam ion trap with a monochrom…

physics.atom-ph2023

Narrow and ultra-narrow transitions in highly charged Xe ions as probes of fifth forces

Nils-Holger Rehbehn, Michael K. Rosner, Julian C. Berengut +4

Optical frequency metrology in atoms and ions can probe hypothetical fifth-forces between electrons and neutrons by sensing minute perturbations of the electronic wave function ind…

physics.atom-ph2023★ 66 cited

Stringent test of QED with hydrogenlike tin

J. Morgner, B. Tu, C. M. König +11

Inner-shell electrons naturally sense the electric field close to the nucleus, which can reach extreme values beyond for the innermost electrons. Espe…

physics.atom-ph2023★ 5 cited

Cold highly charged ions in a radio-frequency trap with superconducting magnetic shielding

Elwin A. Dijck, Christian Warnecke, Malte Wehrheim +12

We implement sympathetic cooling of highly charged ions (HCI) by fully enclosing a linear Paul trap within a superconducting radio-frequency resonator. A quantization magnetic fiel…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 14 cited

X-ray spectra of the Fe-L complex III: systematic uncertainties in the atomic data

Liyi Gu, Chintan Shah, Junjie Mao +14

There has been a growing request from the X-ray astronomy community for a quantitative estimate of systematic uncertainties originating from the atomic data used in plasma codes. T…

physics.atom-ph2022★ 128 cited

An Optical Atomic Clock Based on a Highly Charged Ion

Steven A. King, Lukas J. Spieß, Peter Micke +9

Optical atomic clocks are the most accurate measurement devices ever constructed and have found many applications in fundamental science and technology. The use of highly charged i…

hep-ex2022★ 56 cited

New Horizons: Scalar and Vector Ultralight Dark Matter

D. Antypas, A. Banerjee, C. Bartram +123

The last decade has seen unprecedented effort in dark matter model building at all mass scales coupled with the design of numerous new detection strategies. Transformative advances…

physics.atom-ph2022★ 36 cited

New Measurement Resolves Key Astrophysical Fe XVII Oscillator Strength Problem

Steffen Kühn, Charles Cheung, Natalia S. Oreshkina +19

One of the most enduring and intensively studied problems of X-ray astronomy is the disagreement of state-of-the art theory and observations for the intensity ratio of two Fe XVII…

hep-ph2021★ 65 cited

Measuring the stability of fundamental constants with a network of clocks

G. Barontini, L. Blackburn, V. Boyer +41

The detection of variations of fundamental constants of the Standard Model would provide us with compelling evidence of new physics, and could lift the veil on the nature of dark m…

physics.atom-ph2021★ 15 cited

Comprehensive Laboratory Measurements Resolving the LMM Dielectronic Recombination Satellite Lines in Ne-like Fe XVII Ions

Filipe Grilo, Chintan Shah, Steffen K"uhn +7

We investigated experimentally and theoretically dielectronic recombination (DR) populating doubly excited configurations (LMM) in Fe XVII, the strongest channel for soft X…

physics.atom-ph2021★ 38 cited

Sensitivity to New Physics of Isotope Shift Studies using the Coronal Lines of Highly Charged Calcium Ions

Nils-Holger Rehbehn, Michael K. Rosner, Hendrik Bekker +8

Promising searches for new physics beyond the current Standard Model (SM) of particle physics are feasible through isotope-shift spectroscopy, which is sensitive to a hypothetical…