Festkolloquium anlässlich des 60. Geburtstages von Prof. Klaus Wendt: Measuring the world – precision measurements of fundamental properties of atoms and Nuclei
Prof. Dr. Klaus Blaum (Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg)

Atomic physics techniques like Penning-trap mass spectrometry and laser spectroscopy have provided sensitive and high-precision tools for a detailed study of atomic and nuclear ground-state properties far from the valley of stability. Mass, moment and nuclear charge radii measurements in long isotopic and isotonic chains have allowed, e.g., to extract nuclear structure information such as shell and subshell closures, the onset of deformation, the coexistence of nuclear shapes and the discovery of new magic numbers. This colloquium covers the mentioned experimental techniques to study nuclear ground state properties and their impact on nuclear structure, nuclear astrophysics and tests of fundamental interactions and their symmetries.
Comparisons to state-of-the-art calculations will be presented as well.