Annual Report 2024

It is our pleasure to present the LIP annual report 2024. In the tradition of previous volumes, we have compiled a comprehensive overview of the activities in our laboratory in 2024. The one-page summaries presented in this volume are easy to read and should give the interested but non-expert reader some basic insight into ongoing projects and activities. We hope that the reports will inspire you and that some of them will catch your attention and encourage you to read on. For more in-depth reading, we recommend the references listed at the end of the scientific reports. In 2024 the operational agreement for the Laboratory of Ion Beam Physics (LIP) was renewed for another four-year period (2025-2028) by the LIP board of trustees (ETH Executive Board, D-PHYS, D-ERDW, D-USYS of ETH Zurich, and Eawag, Empa, PSI and WSL of ETH Domain). We would like to thank all our board members for their continued trust and support. We especially welcome our new board member D-USYS. We are delighted that the long-standing collaboration with several groups from D-USYS has now led to their membership of the LIP board. A highlight of 2024 was the return of the Bio-MICADAS to LIP. The system, initially installed in 2008 in California, was later moved to a biomedical company in Seattle, which ceased business in April 2024. We sent a team to dismantle and ship the system back to LIP, where it will serve as the basis for the new MIQ prototype system, a MICADAS equipped with an ion cooler for laser-induced isobar suppression. This volume not only presents scientific projects carried out by LIP scientific and technical staff together with our collaborators, it also describes our commitment to teaching and apprenticeship and presents our annual statistics on machines, samples, scientific publications and outreach, and prizes for present and former LIP employees. With seven operational accelerator systems and one being in development, LIP covers an exceptionally broad and interdisciplinary spectrum of science and applications that is reflected in the main chapters of the annual report. Together with our valuable collaborators LIP scientists authored or co-authored more than 70 publications in international, peer reviewed journals, presented their results on national and international conferences, and contributed to teaching in many departments of ETH Zurich and at other universities. Finally, I would like to thank all our national and international project partners, users and clients for their excellent collaboration and trust in the quality of our analyses. Our excellent collaborative user service is only possible with a highly qualified and motivated team. My special thanks therefore go to all the scientific, technical, and administrative staff of the LIP for their great commitment and dedication. Marcus Christl and the editorial team led by Urs Ramsperger and Lindita Abazi