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Dear Colleagues,

The 5th International Workshop on Electrostatic Storage Devices
==== ESD 2013 ====
will be held during June 17-21, 2013 at the Max-Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg, Germany

Please find more details on the scientific scope below.
Further information will be available at http://www.mpi-hd.mpg.de/blaum/events/esd2013/

Planned schedule:
Registration, abstract submission, details on accommodation: from December 2012
Registration and abstract deadline: 12 April 2013

==== First Announcement ====

The dynamic development of electrostatic storage devices for ion beams is creating new experimental options for research on large and small molecules, highly charged ions, and atomic clusters. The growing capabilities of these devices greatly expand the advantages of using stored ion beam methods by the availability of cryogenic temperatures, high molecular masses, and high-quality low-velocity ion beams. Furthermore, new opportunities arise for employing laser sources in a wide spectral range and for merged-beam collision experiments, ring-internal targets, and advanced particle detection techniques. Thus, new possibilities are created for sensitive experiments on collisional and internal rearrangements in complex atomic-scale systems, and in fields such as mass spectrometry and weak interactions in nuclei.

Accompanying these advances, International Workshops on Electrostatic Storage Devices were held in Eilat, Israel (2005), Stockholm, Sweden (2007), Aarhus, Denmark (2009) and Gatlinburg, USA (2011). In the line of the previous meetings, ==== the Heidelberg Workshop ESD 2013 ==== will be devoted to progress in the development of instruments and procedures as well as to research with low-energy stored ion beams – expanding to an increasingly broad range of scientific areas as the experimental options evolve.

A selection of topics envisaged for ESD 2013:

      * Intra-molecular energy and charge propagation and rearrangement 
      * Vibrational autodetachment in complex molecular ions 
      * Spectroscopy with fast ion beams, including new wavelength regimes 
      * Merged beams experiments with stored ions 
      * Gas-phase studies of ionic processes in organic chemistry 
      * Low-energy ion storage and nuclear physics 
      * Stored ion beam techniques in mass spectrometry 
      * Particle detectors for low-energy ion beams 
      * Sources of cold and complex molecular ions 
      * Development of low-energy stored ion beam facilities 
      * Ionic and molecular processes in atmospheric, astrophysical and plasma research
        
International Committee:

Toshiyuki Azuma, Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics Laboratory, RIKEN, Tokyo, Japan
Steen Brøndsted Nielsen, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus University, Denmark
Robert Continetti, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of San Diego, USA 
Michael Fogle, Physics Department, Auburn University, USA
Oded Heber, Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Mark Johnson, Department of Chemistry, Yale University, Connecticut, USA
Serge Martin, LASIM, Université de Lyon, France
Henning Schmidt, Molecular Physics, Department of Physics, Stockholm University, Sweden
Andreas Wolf, Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physik, Heidelberg, Germany 

Local Committee:

Andreas Wolf (Chair)
Klaus Blaum
Manfred Grieser
Kristian Haberkorn
Robert von Hahn
Claude Krantz
Holger Kreckel
Michael Lange
Oldřich Novotný
Claus-Dieter Schröter

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