Physics with Multiply Charged Ions

Multiply charged ions have always been in the focus of atomic physics, astrophysics, plasma physics, and theoretical physics. Within the last few years, strong progress has been achieved in the development of ion sources, ion storage rings, ion traps, and methods to cool ions. As a consequence, nowadays, experiments with ensembles of multiply charged ions of brilliant quality are performed in many laboratories. The broad spectrum of the experiments demonstrates that these ions are an extremely versatile tool for investigations in pure and applied physics. It was the aim of this ASI to bring together scientists working in different fields of research with multiply charged ions in order to get an overview of the state of the art, to sound out possibilities for fruitful cooperations, and to discuss perspectives for the future. Accordingly, the programme of the ASI reached from established areas like QED calculations, weak interactions, x-ray astronomy, x-ray lasers, multi photon excitation, heavy-ion induced fusion, and ion-surface interactions up to the very recently opened areas like bound-beta decay, laser and x-ray spectroscopy, and spectrometry of ions in rings and traps, and the interaction of highly charged ions with biological cells. Impressive progress in nearly all of the fields could be reported during the meeting which is documented by the contributions to this volume. The theoretical understand ing of QED and correlation effects in few-electron heavy ions is rapidly developing.

Zusammenfassung
Proceedings of a NATO ASI held in Cargese, France, July 18-30, 1994

Inhalt
Correlation and QED for Highly Charged Ions.- X-Ray Spectroscopy of Highly Charged Ions in a Storage Ring.- Precision Tests of QED in Strong Fields and Nuclear Contributions.- The QED Shift in Highly Stripped Atoms.- Parity Violation and Time Reversal Invariance.- Tests of Special Relativity with Laser Spectroscopy of Fast Atoms and Ions.- The Uses of Electron Beam Ion Traps in the Study of Highly Charged Ions.- X-Ray Spectroscopy of Cosmic Sources.- Bound-State Beta Decay.- Physics with Trapped Heavy Ions.- Photoionization with Super-Intense Lasers.- Ion-Surface Interactions.- X-Ray Lasers.- Heavy-Ion Induced Fusion.- Physical Mechanisms for Cellular Inactivation Induced by Ion Impact.