From heavy ions to exotic atoms

TL;DR

This paper reviews experimental and theoretical work on heavy ions and exotic atoms, focusing on fundamental interactions, parity violation, and strong interaction measurements using highly-charged ions and pionic atoms.

Contribution

It summarizes recent advances in experiments and calculations involving heavy ions and exotic atoms, highlighting new methods for probing fundamental forces.

Findings

Proposed experiments for parity violation in heavy ions.

High-precision measurements of He-like transition energies.

Recent experiments on pionic atoms for strong interaction parameters.

Abstract

We review a number of experiments and theoretical calculations on heavy ions and exotic atoms, which aim at providing informations on fundamental interactions. Among those are propositions of experiments for parity violation measurements in heavy ions and high-precision mesurements of He-like transition energies in highly charged ions. We also describe recent experiments on pionic atoms, that make use of highly-charged ion transitions to obtain accurate measurements of strong interaction shift and width.