High Voltage Determination and Stabilization for Collinear Laser Spectroscopy Applications

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Main Authors: König, Kristian, Köhler, Finn, Palmes, Julian, Badura, Henrik, Dockery, Adam, Minamisono, Kei, Meisner, Johann, Müller, Patrick, Nörtershäuser, Wilfried, Passon, Stephan
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author König, Kristian
Köhler, Finn
Palmes, Julian
Badura, Henrik
Dockery, Adam
Minamisono, Kei
Meisner, Johann
Müller, Patrick
Nörtershäuser, Wilfried
Passon, Stephan
author_facet König, Kristian
Köhler, Finn
Palmes, Julian
Badura, Henrik
Dockery, Adam
Minamisono, Kei
Meisner, Johann
Müller, Patrick
Nörtershäuser, Wilfried
Passon, Stephan
contents Fast beam collinear laser spectroscopy is the established method to investigate nuclear ground state properties such as the spin, the electromagnetic moments, and the charge radius of exotic nuclei. These are extracted with high precision from atomic observables, i.e., the hyperfine splitting and its the isotope shift, which becomes possible due to a large reduction of the Doppler broadening by compressing the velocity width of the ion beam through electrostatic acceleration. With the advancement of the experimental methods and applied devices, e.g., to measure and stabilize the laser frequency, the acceleration potential became the dominant systematic uncertainty contribution. To overcome this, we present a custom-built high-voltage divider, which was developed and tested at the German metrology institute (PTB), and a feedback loop that enabled collinear laser spectroscopy to be performed at a 100-kHz level. Furthermore, we describe the impact of field penetration into the laser-ion-interaction region. This strongly affects the determined isotope shifts and hyperfine splittings, if Doppler tuning is applied, i.e., the ion beam energy is altered instead of scanning the laser frequency. Using different laser frequencies that were referenced to a frequency comb, the field penetration was extracted laser spectroscopically. This allowed us to define an effective scanning potential to still apply the faster and easier Doppler tuning without introducing systematic deviations.
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spellingShingle High Voltage Determination and Stabilization for Collinear Laser Spectroscopy Applications
König, Kristian
Köhler, Finn
Palmes, Julian
Badura, Henrik
Dockery, Adam
Minamisono, Kei
Meisner, Johann
Müller, Patrick
Nörtershäuser, Wilfried
Passon, Stephan
Instrumentation and Detectors
Nuclear Experiment
Fast beam collinear laser spectroscopy is the established method to investigate nuclear ground state properties such as the spin, the electromagnetic moments, and the charge radius of exotic nuclei. These are extracted with high precision from atomic observables, i.e., the hyperfine splitting and its the isotope shift, which becomes possible due to a large reduction of the Doppler broadening by compressing the velocity width of the ion beam through electrostatic acceleration. With the advancement of the experimental methods and applied devices, e.g., to measure and stabilize the laser frequency, the acceleration potential became the dominant systematic uncertainty contribution. To overcome this, we present a custom-built high-voltage divider, which was developed and tested at the German metrology institute (PTB), and a feedback loop that enabled collinear laser spectroscopy to be performed at a 100-kHz level. Furthermore, we describe the impact of field penetration into the laser-ion-interaction region. This strongly affects the determined isotope shifts and hyperfine splittings, if Doppler tuning is applied, i.e., the ion beam energy is altered instead of scanning the laser frequency. Using different laser frequencies that were referenced to a frequency comb, the field penetration was extracted laser spectroscopically. This allowed us to define an effective scanning potential to still apply the faster and easier Doppler tuning without introducing systematic deviations.
title High Voltage Determination and Stabilization for Collinear Laser Spectroscopy Applications
topic Instrumentation and Detectors
Nuclear Experiment
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.05112