Brewer, S.
, Guise, N.
and Tan, J.
(2013),
Capture and isolation of highly-charged ions in a compact Penning trap: V12, Physical Review A (Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics), [online], https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.88.063403, https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=912447
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Capture and isolation of highly-charged ions in a compact Penning trap: V12
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Room-temperature, compact Penning traps have been shown recently to be useful for capture and storage of highly-charged ions extracted from an EBIT ion source at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Highly-charged argon and neon ions extracted with energies of up to 4000 eV/Q are captured in such traps with well depths of 4 eV/Q – 12 eV/Q. Here we discuss in detail the technique of slowing, capture, and storage of energetic, highly-charged ions in a unitary Penning trap. Near optimal capture conditions, ions isolated in such rare-earth Penning traps can be characterized by an initial temperature that is lower by a factor of 60 than typically found in an EBIT, a step towards the low-energy regime of interest for some precision experiments.Citation
Physical Review A (Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics)
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88
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37.10.Ty (ion trapping), 37.10.Rs (ion cooling), 07.55.-w (magnetic instrument and components), 06.30-k (measurements common to several branches of physics and astronomy)
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