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- Title
A Penning trap with radial magnetic field.
- Authors
Angelescu, Carmen; Werth, Guenter
- Abstract
A radial inhomogeneous magnetic field produced by counter-propagating currents in anti-Helmholtz configuration coils has been superimposed to a Penning trap. The confinement properties of electrons in such a trap have been studied experimentally. Without the radial B-field we find a number of operating conditions where instabilities occur, arising from higher order contributions to the quadrupolar trapping field. When we apply the radial field the trap properties remain essentially unchanged until the strength of this field at the boundary of the electron cloud is of the same order as the homogeneous Penning field. Then a sudden breakdown in the confinement appears. The experiments have been performed in low magnetic fields. The equations of motions of the trapped particles can be cast in a dimensionless form and our results can be considered as independent of the field strength.
- Subjects
MAGNETIC fields; ELECTRONS; PARTICLES (Nuclear physics); OSCILLATION theory of functional differential equations; CYCLOTRONS; POSITRONS
- Publication
Hyperfine Interactions, 2006, Vol 174, Issue 1-3, p89
- ISSN
0304-3843
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10751-007-9569-5