Note: Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Fundamental interactions -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Known interactions and searches for new physics -- 2.1 Electron magnetic anomaly -- 2.2 Muon magnetic anomaly -- 2.3 Bound state g-factors -- 3 Discrete symmetries -- 3.1 Parity -- 3.2 CP and T-violation -- 3.2.1 β-decays -- 3.2.2 Permanent electric dipole moments (EDMs) -- 4 Facilities -- 5 Conclusions -- References -- The WITCH experiment: towards weak interactions studies. Status and prospects -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Experiment -- 3 Present status -- 3.1 Traps -- 3.2 First recoil ions -- 3.3 Position sensitivity -- 4 Outlook -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- Unitarity of the CKM matrix -- 1 Status of unitarity of CKM matrix -- 2 Isospin breaking in T = 2 decays -- 3 Extracting Vud from the decay of ultra-cold neutrons -- 4 Conclusions -- References -- The LPCTrap experiment: measurement of the β-ν angular correlation in 6He using a transparent Paul trap -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The LPCTrap setup -- 2.1 Beam cooling and manipulation -- 2.2 The transparent Paul trap -- 2.3 The detection setup -- 3 Results -- 4 Conclusion and outlook -- References -- Light ion EDM search in magnetic storage rings -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Electric dipole moments -- 3 EDM detection -- 4 Spin dynamics in electro-magnetic storage rings -- 4.1 The 'parasitic' way -- 4.2 Frozen spin -- 4.3 Spin resonance -- 5 Conclusion and outlook -- References -- Towards a new measurement of the neutron electric dipole moment -- 1 Motivation -- 2 Measuring principle and precision goal -- 3 The new neutron EDM experiment -- References -- Fundamental symmetries studies with cold trapped francium atoms at ISAC -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Production and trapping of Fr at ISAC -- 3 Possible PNC experiments -- 4 Outlook and conclusions -- References. , Ground-state hyperfine splitting of antihydrogen -- 1 Introduction -- 2 CPT invariance and hydrogen -- 2.1 The 1S-2S frequency for hydrogen and antihydrogen -- 2.2 The hyperfine frequency for hydrogen and antihydrogen -- 2.3 SME and GS-HFS -- 3 H GS-HFS measurement -- 3.1 General considerations -- 3.2 Antihydrogen production in a Paul trap -- 4 Summary -- References -- Breaking of CPT and Lorentz symmetries -- 1 Introduction -- 2 CPT and Lorentz violation from new infrared physics -- 3 Baryon asymmetry from CPT violation -- References -- FLAIR - a facility for low-energy antiproton and ion research -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Overview of anticipated experiments -- 2.1 Spectroscopy and fundamental tests -- 2.2 Sub-femtosecond correlated dynamics: atomic collisions -- 2.3 Antiprotons as hadronic probes: QCD and nuclear halo -- 3 The accelerator chain -- 3.2 The low-energy storage ring (LSR) -- 3.3 The ultra-low energy storage ring -- 3.3.1 Ring layout -- 3.3.2 Electron cooling at 20 keV -- 4 Expected antiproton numbers -- 5 Conclusion -- Reference -- Towards antihydrogen confinement with the ALPHA antihydrogen trap -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Motivation for trapped antihydrogen -- 3 ALPHA overview -- 4 Antimatter plasmas in an octupole trap -- 5 ALPHA antihydrogen detector -- 6 Physics with trapped antihydrogen -- 7 Summary and outlook -- ATRAP antihydrogen experiments and update -- References -- Production of slow protonium in vacuum -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Experimental details -- 3 Results and discussion -- 4 Conclusions -- References -- Proposed measurement of the ground-state hyperfine structure of antihydrogen -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Proposed experimental method -- 3 Monte Carlo simulations -- References -- Progress in stored ion beam experiments on atomic and molecular processes -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Twin electron beams in a magnetic storage ring. , 3 Dielectronic resonance spectroscopy with resolved hyperfine structure -- 4 Rotational structure in the recombination cross section of the hydrogen molecular ion -- 5 Cryogenic ion storage -- 6 Conclusions -- References -- Tests of quantum electrodynamics using ion traps -- 1 Introduction -- 2 g Factors -- 3 Lamb shift -- 4 Hyperfine structure -- 5 Conclusions -- References -- Ground state Lamb-shift of heavy hydrogen-like ions: status and perspectives -- 1 The current status of the experimental and the theoretical research -- 2 High-resolution spectroscopy of high-Z H-like ions -- 3 Conclusions -- References -- Studies of light halo nuclei by the isotope shift method -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Theoretical energies and isotope shifts -- 3 Applications to nuclear size measurements -- 4 Summary and conclusions -- References -- Unified approach to dispersion forces within macroscopic QED -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Sketch of QED in causal media -- 3 Lorentz-force approach -- 4 Casimir force on dielectric bodies -- 5 Casimir-Polder and van der Waals force -- 6 Summary -- References -- Beta decay of highly charged ions -- 1 Introduction and outline -- 2 First observation of bound-state beta decay -- 3 Bound-state beta decay of bare 187Re and the age of the Universe -- 4 First measurement of a continuum-to-bound branching ratio in β− decay -- 5 Two-body beta decay of single ions -- References -- Atomic spectroscopy of trapped, highly charged, heavy ions -- 1 Introduction -- 2 EBIT experiments -- 2.1 EUV spectrometer measurements -- 2.2 Time-resolved X-ray measurements -- 3 Atomic level lifetime measurements at storage ring and EBIT -- 4 Conclusion and prospects -- References -- Direct mass measurements of exotic nuclei at the FRS-ESR facility at GSI -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Novel methods -- 3 Example results -- 3.1 Mapping the mass surface. , 3.2 Applications in nuclear astrophyiscs -- 3.3 Search for new isotopes and isomers -- 4 Summary and outlook -- References -- Simulating the stopping dynamics of highly charged ions in an ultra-cold, strongly coupled plasma -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Using laser-cooled ions as a stopping medium -- 3 Simulating the stopping dynamics -- 4 Results -- 4.1 Stopping times -- 4.2 Plasma stability and fast recooling -- 5 Summary and Outlook -- References -- The cyclotron gas stopper project at the NSCL -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Concept -- 3 Mechanical design -- 4 Beam stopping simulations -- References -- Ion detection from beta decay and two-body decay experiments with laser-cooled atoms -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Search for tensor interactions -- 2.1 Experimental geometry -- 3 Exotic particle searches -- 3.1 Sterile ν admixtures -- 3.2 Isomer decay: search for heavy axions -- 4 Conclusion -- References -- A new experimental approach for isochronous mass measurements of short-lived exotic nuclei with the FRS-ESR facility -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Experimental -- 2.1 Isochronous mass spectrometry -- 3 Future perspectives -- References -- Direct mass measurements of neutron-deficient 152Sm projectile fragments at the FRS-ESR facility -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Experiment -- 3 Results -- 4 Conclusion -- References -- Isobar separation at FRS-ESR - a development towards pure isomeric stored beams -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Production and separation of isomeric beams -- 3 The storage ring ESR as high-resolution separator -- 4 First experimental results -- 5 Further developments and outlook -- References -- Enhanced electron-ion recombinationin ion storage rings -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Field induced recombination -- 2.1 Dynamics of electron and ion in the electron cooler -- 2.2 Radiative decay in the solenoid -- 3 Results -- References. , Q value related mass determinations using a Penning trap -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The SMILETRAP facility -- 3 A new Q value for the 6Li (n,γ) 7Li reactionThe literature mass value of 7Li has a relative uncertaint -- 4 The Q value of the tritium β-decay -- 5 The Q value of the double β-decay of 76Ge for a search of neutrino-less events -- 6 Outlook -- References -- A high-current electron beam ion trap as an on-line charge breeder for the high precision mass measurement TITAN experiment -- 1 Introduction -- 2 TITAN EBIT characteristics -- 3 First experimental results -- 4 Conclusion -- References -- The HITRAP project at GSI: trapping and cooling of highly-charged ions in a Penning trap -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Production of HCI and deceleration -- 3 The cooler Penning trap -- 3.1 Simulations of the ion dynamics -- 4 Status -- References -- A cooler ion trap for the TITAN on-line trapping facility at TRIUMF -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Electron cooling and electron-ion recombination -- 3 Calculations of proton cooling -- 4 The cooler trap -- 5 Summary and conclusions -- References -- The LEBIT facility at MSU -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Overview of the LEBIT facility -- 2.1 The gas stopping station -- 2.2 The ion beam cooler and buncher -- 2.3 The Penning trap mass spectrometer -- 3 Mass measurements with stable ions -- 4 Mass measurements with rare isotopes -- References -- The TITAN mass measurement facility at TRIUMF-ISAC -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Physics motivation of the precision mass measurement -- 3 The apparatus -- 3.1 Radio frequency quadrupole cooler trap (RFCT) -- 3.2 Electron beam ion trap (EBIT) -- 3.3 Cooler penning trap (CPET) -- 3.4 Measurement penning trap (MPET) -- 4 Schedule -- 5 Summary -- References -- Mass measurements in the endpoint region of the rp-process at SHIPTRAP -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Experimental setup. , 3 Mass measurements along the rp-process path.