High-Accuracy Experiments with Stored and Cooled Ions

Daniel Rodri­guez
University of Granada/Max-Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg

The coupling of ion traps at Radioactive Ion Beam facilities have made possible
in the last decade high-accuracy experiments in the areas of nuclear and
particle physics. High-accuracy experiments are important for nuclear structure studies, nuclear
astrophysics, and the test of fundamental symmetries. This talk will show two existing
ion-traps facilities: SHIPTRAP at GSI in Germany, for nuclear structure
studies in the region of super-heavy elements, and LPCTRAP at GANIL in France built up to test the
V-A theory of the Standard Model. It will follow with a view into the future with MATS 
at FAIR and the technical developments carried out for immediate use at the
KATRIN (KArlsruhe TRItium Neutrino) experiment
It will conclude showing REOSTRAP, a state-of-the-art
Penning trap mass spectrometer proposed in Spain to contribute to the
determination of the electron antineutrino mass.