An international team of researchers, including members from the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU, WPI), has directly observed "highly charged muonic ions," ...

(a) The x ray spectrum of highly charged muon Argon ions measured by the TES detector. (b) The theoretical x ray energies of highly charged μAr. An international team of researchers, including members ...

Shooting ions is very different from shooting a gun: By firing highly charged ions onto tiny gold structures, these structures can be modified in technologically interesting ways. Surprisingly, the ...

Quantum electrodynamics (QED) is the most rigorously tested quantum field theory of the standard model of particle physics 1. It describes the fundamental electromagnetic interactions of particles and ...

Ionization and dielectronic recombination are pivotal processes in the study of highly charged ions, underpinning much of modern plasma physics and astrophysics. Ionization involves the removal of one ...

Generally, two types of choices are made as far as physics is concerned. One is either dealing with the big things like a metal plate and its material properties or with small things like individual ...

Scientists from the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) and the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics (MPIK) have carried out pioneering optical measurements of highly charged ions with ...

When you toss a coin, you put it into a higher-energy state until it falls back down again. It can then end up in one of two possible states: heads or tails. No matter which state the coin was in ...

(Nanowerk News) Normally, we have to make a choice in physics: Either we deal with big things – such as a metal plate and its material properties, or with tiny things – such as individual atoms. But ...