Penning Trap Progress in Munich

The MLLTRAP, presently under construction at the Maier---Leibnitz Laboratory (Garching), is a Penning trap system designed to decelerate, purify, charge-breed and cool the radioactive ions with the aim to perform the high-accuracy nuclear mass measurements. It involves novel techniques, like sympathetic cooling of highly-charged ions of interest with laser-cooled Mg+ ions. The goal is to reach an accuracy of 10-10, which is required for high precision fundamental physics studies like the determination of fundamental constants and measurement of electron binding energies for QED at strong fields.