1. Foreword

   • Andreas Wolf
   • H. -Jürgen Kluge
   • Herbert Orth

   EditorialNotes Pages: IX - X

2. Ion traps and their application in spectroscopy

   • G. Werth

   OriginalPaper Pages: 3 - 30

3. Fundamentals of electron-ion interaction

   • Alfred Müller

   OriginalPaper Pages: 31 - 45

4. EBIT as a versatile experimental facility

   • Dieter Schneider

   OriginalPaper Pages: 47 - 69

5. The SMILETRAP (Stockholm-Mainz-Ion-LEvitation-TRAP) facility

   • G. Rouleau
   • H. Borgenstrand
   • R. Mann

   OriginalPaper Pages: 73 - 81

6. SMILETRAP — Atomic mass measurements with ppb accuracy by using highly charged ions

   • T. Schwarz
   • R. Jertz
   • R. Mann

   OriginalPaper Pages: 83 - 89

7. Measurement of the g_j factor of hydrogenic ions: a sensitive test of bound state QED

   • K. Hermanspahn
   • W. Quint
   • G. Werth

   OriginalPaper Pages: 91 - 95

8. Production and investigation of multiply charged metal clusters in a Penning trap

   • L. Schweikhard
   • P. Beiersdorfer
   • J. Ziegler

   OriginalPaper Pages: 97 - 104

9. MISTRAL: A new program for precise atomic mass determinations of nuclides far from stability

   • M. D. Lunney
   • G. Audi
   • MISTRAL collaboration

   OriginalPaper Pages: 105 - 114

10. Schottky mass spectrometry at the heavy ion storage ring ESR

    • B. Schlitt
    • K. Beckert
    • H. Wollnik

    OriginalPaper Pages: 117 - 125

11. Laser-cooled and trapped atoms as a precision target for heavy ion beams

    • U. Schünemann
    • I. Manek
    • D. Schwalm

    OriginalPaper Pages: 127 - 133

12. Test of special relativity in an ion storage ring

    • R. Grieser
    • P. Merz
    • T. Kühl

    OriginalPaper Pages: 135 - 143

13. Precision laser spectroscopy of highly charged ions

    • T. Kühl
    • S. Borneis
    • L. Völker

    OriginalPaper Pages: 145 - 153

14. Measurements of long atomic lifetimes at an ion storage ring

    • J. Doerfert
    • E. Träbert
    • A. Wolf

    OriginalPaper Pages: 155 - 165

15. Laser spectroscopy using the Oxford electron beam ion trap

    • H. S. Margolis
    • P. D. Groves
    • M. A. Levine

    OriginalPaper Pages: 169 - 174

16. Production and decay of highly-charged fullerene ions

    • S. Matt
    • B. Dünser
    • T. D. Märk

    OriginalPaper Pages: 175 - 191

17. Ion storage at eV energies in an octopole ring

    • F. W. Bliek
    • R. Hoekstra
    • R. Morgenstern

    OriginalPaper Pages: 193 - 200

18. Overview of the current spectroscopy effort on the Livermore electron beam ion traps

    • P. Beiersdorfer
    • G. V. Brown
    • K. L. Wong

    OriginalPaper Pages: 203 - 215

19. Direct measurement of two-electron contributions to the ground state energy of heliumlike high-Z ions

    • Th. Stöhlker
    • S. R. Elliott
    • R. E. Marrs

    OriginalPaper Pages: 217 - 224

20. Energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy for ECR plasma diagnostics

    • R. Friedlein
    • D. Küchler
    • H. Tyrroff

    OriginalPaper Pages: 225 - 234

21. High resolution wavelength dispersive X-ray spectroscopy for ECR plasma diagnostics

    • U. Lehnert
    • C. Zippe
    • G. Zschornack

    OriginalPaper Pages: 235 - 241

22. Suppression of intrabeam scattering in cooled heavy ion beams

    • M. Steck
    • K. Beckert
    • T. Winkler

    OriginalPaper Pages: 245 - 251

23. Limited heating rates in strongly coupled particle beams

    • M. Seurer
    • Q. Spreiter
    • C. Toepffer

    OriginalPaper Pages: 253 - 258

24. White-light laser cooling of ions in a storage ring

    • R. Calabrese
    • V. Guidi
    • L. Moi

    OriginalPaper Pages: 259 - 265

25. Ultrashort laser-pulse diagnostics for detection of ordering within an ion beam

    • R. Calabrese
    • V. Guidi
    • U. Tambini

    OriginalPaper Pages: 267 - 276

26. Electron cooling force measurements for highly charged ions in the ESR

    • T. Winkler
    • K. Beckert
    • M. Steck

    OriginalPaper Pages: 277 - 283

27. Molecular dynamic simulations of ions in electron plasmas at strong coupling

    • Günter Zwicknagel
    • Christian Toepffer
    • Paul-Gerhard Reinhard

    OriginalPaper Pages: 285 - 291

28. Recombination of electrons with highly charged heavy ions at very low energies

    • O. Uwira
    • A. Müller
    • D. Habs

    OriginalPaper Pages: 295 - 300

29. Density dependence of recombination in the electron cooler of CRYRING

    • H. Gao
    • S. Asp
    • H. Danared

    OriginalPaper Pages: 301 - 308

30. Laser-induced recombination studies with the adiabatically expanded electron beam of the Heidelberg TSR

    • U. Schramm
    • T. Schüssler
    • A. Wolf

    OriginalPaper Pages: 309 - 316

31. Dielectronic recombination of Li-like neon and argon

    • R. Schuch
    • W. Zong
    • A. Källberg

    OriginalPaper Pages: 317 - 323

32. Observation of Δn=1 dielectronic recombination resonances of boronlike argon

    • W. Zong
    • D. R. DeWitt
    • E. Justiniano

    OriginalPaper Pages: 325 - 331

33. The relaxation of a reconstructed metallic surface and its influence on the EFG acting on a substitutional PAC probe

    • Agustín M. Rodríguez

    OriginalPaper Pages: 339 - 346

34. Quadrupole interaction at¹⁸¹Ta in BaHfO₃

    • K. C. Sebastian
    • D. R. S. Somayajulu
    • J. Varma

    OriginalPaper Pages: 347 - 351

35. In vitro spectroscopic study of normal and pathological blood denaturation

    • C. M. Jumpertz
    • J. N. Rimbert

    OriginalPaper Pages: 353 - 366

36. A Mössbauer spectroscopic study of cobalt-iron molybdates

    • B. BenaÏchouba
    • P. Bussière
    • J. C. Védrine

    OriginalPaper Pages: 367 - 387

37. Mössbauer and X-ray diffraction studies of mechanically alloyed Fe-Al

    • Elżbieta Jartych
    • Jan Krzysztof Zurawicz
    • Mieczysław Bundzyński

    OriginalPaper Pages: 389 - 399

38. Three thousand years of copper metallurgy —seen through the eyes of Mössbauer spectroscopy part III: copper losses in bronze age slags

    • R. Rüffler

    OriginalPaper Pages: 401 - 407

39. Diffusion of sodium from the exterior to the interior surface of faujasite zeolites exchanged for different alkaline metal ions

    • István Hannus
    • János B. Nagy
    • Imre Kiricsi

    OriginalPaper Pages: 409 - 414

40. Hyperfine field response to RF excitation in superparamagnetic particles

    • E. K. Sadykov
    • A. G. Isavnin

    OriginalPaper Pages: 415 - 419

41. Interactions of coherent electromagnetic radiation with nuclei

    • J. Odeurs

    OriginalPaper Pages: 421 - 446