TCP 2006: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Trapped Charged Particles and Fundamental Physics (TCP 2006) held in Parksville, Canada, 3–8 September, 2006

Front Matter....Pages i-4
Fundamental interactions....Pages 5-14
The WITCH experiment: towards weak interactions studies. Status and prospects....Pages 15-22
Unitarity of the CKM matrix....Pages 23-28
The LPCTrap experiment: measurement of the β-ν angular correlation in 6 He using a transparent Paul trap....Pages 29-33
Light ion EDM search in magnetic storage rings....Pages 35-40
Towards a new measurement of the neutron electric dipole moment....Pages 41-43
Fundamental symmetries studies with cold trapped francium atoms at ISAC....Pages 45-51
Ground-state hyperfine splitting of antihydrogen....Pages 53-62
Breaking of CPT and Lorentz symmetries....Pages 63-70
FLAIR — a facility for low-energy antiproton and ion research....Pages 71-80
Towards antihydrogen confinement with the ALPHA antihydrogen trap....Pages 81-89
ATRAP antihydrogen experiments and update....Pages 91-96
Production of slow protonium in vacuum....Pages 97-105
Proposed measurement of the ground-state hyperfine structure of antihydrogen....Pages 107-110
Progress in stored ion beam experiments on atomic and molecular processes....Pages 111-124
Tests of quantum electrodynamics using ion traps....Pages 125-134
Ground state Lamb-shift of heavy hydrogen-like ions: status and perspectives....Pages 135-140
Studies of light halo nuclei by the isotope shift method....Pages 141-147
Unified approach to dispersion forces within macroscopic QED....Pages 149-156
Beta decay of highly charged ions....Pages 157-167
Atomic spectroscopy of trapped, highly charged, heavy ions....Pages 169-174
Direct mass measurements of exotic nuclei at the FRS-ESR facility at GSI....Pages 175-182
Simulating the stopping dynamics of highly charged ions in an ultra-cold, strongly coupled plasma....Pages 183-190
The cyclotron gas stopper project at the NSCL....Pages 191-196
Ion detection from beta decay and two-body decay experiments with laser-cooled atoms....Pages 197-204
A new experimental approach for isochronous mass measurements of short-lived exotic nuclei with the FRS-ESR facility....Pages 205-210
Direct mass measurements of neutron-deficient 152 Sm projectile fragments at the FRS-ESR facility....Pages 211-216
Isobar separation at FRS-ESR — a development towards pure isomeric stored beams....Pages 217-222
Enhanced electron-ion recombination in ion storage rings....Pages 223-228
 Q value related mass determinations using a Penning trap....Pages 229-239
A high-current electron beam ion trap as an on-line charge breeder for the high precision mass measurement TITAN experiment....Pages 241-248
The HITRAP project at GSI: trapping and cooling of highly-charged ions in a Penning trap....Pages 249-257
A cooler ion trap for the TITAN on-line trapping facility at TRIUMF....Pages 259-267
The LEBIT facility at MSU....Pages 269-278
The TITAN mass measurement facility at TRIUMF-ISAC....Pages 279-287
Mass measurements in the endpoint region of the rp-process at SHIPTRAP....Pages 289-298
Experimental studies at JYFLTRAP....Pages 299-307
Laser spectroscopy of trapped 7 Be and 10 Be at a prototype slow RI-beam facility of RIKEN....Pages 309-319
Beam purification techniques for low energy rare isotope beams from a gas cell....Pages 321-326
First tests of the TITAN digital RFQ beam cooler and buncher....Pages 327-336
A new Channeltron-detector setup for precision mass measurements at I SOLTRAP ....Pages 337-349
Towards cooling of high-intensity ion beams....Pages 351-356
Towards scaling up trapped ion quantum information processing....Pages 357-363
Octupolar excitation of ion motion in a penning trap....Pages 365-370
The LPCTrap facility for in-trap decay experiments....Pages 371-376
Space charge effects on stopped projectile fragment drift in gas....Pages 377-382
 26 Al beam production by a solid state laser ion source at TRIUMF....Pages 383-388
Segmented linear radiofrequency quadrupole/laser ion source project at TRIUMF....Pages 389-395
Motional frequencies in a planar Penning trap....Pages 397-402
The UW-PTMS....Pages 403-409
Optical clock and ultracold collisions with trapped strontium atoms....Pages 411-420
Precision mass spectrometry and polarizability shifts with one and two ions in a penning trap....Pages 421-425
Formation of a symmetric vortex configuration in a pure electron plasma trapped with a penning trap....Pages 427-432
Axial resonances of Ar + ions observed in a linear Paul trap....Pages 433-438
Hot electron plasmas trapped in helical magnetic surfaces....Pages 439-444
A Penning trap with radial magnetic field....Pages 445-451
Status of the TRIμP project Results of commissioning experiments....Pages 453-458
Back Matter....Pages 459-466