The SHIPTRAP project: A capture and storage facility at GSI for heavy radionuclides from SHIP

SHIPTRAP is an ion trap facility which is being set up to deliver very clea n and cool beams of singly-charged recoil ions produced at the SHIP velocit y filter at GSI Darmstadt. SHIPTRAP consists of a gas cell for stopping and thermalizing high-energy recoil ions from SHIP, a rf ion guide for extract ion of the ions from the gas cell, a linear rf trap for accumulation and bu nching of the ions, and a Penning trap for isobaric purification. The physi cs programme of the SHIPTRAP facility comprises mass spectrometry, nuclear spectroscopy, laser spectroscopy and chemistry of transeinsteinium elements .