A “brief” history of spectroscopy on EBIT
Canadian Journal of PhysicsPublished 1 January 2008
P. Beiersdörfer
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Abstract
In the autumn of 1986, the first electron beam ion trap, EBIT, was put into service as a light source for the spectroscopy of highly charged ions. On the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of EBIT, we review its early uses for spectroscopy, from the first measurements of X-rays from L-shell xenon ions in 1986 to its conversion to SuperEBIT in 1992 and rebirth as EBIT-I in 2001. Together with their sibling, EBIT-II, these machines have been used at Livermore to perform a multitude of seminal studies of the physics of highly charged ions.PACS Nos.: 01.65.+g, 32.30.–r, 32.30,Rj, 39.10.+j
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