Highly charged ion trapping and cooling
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550 (United States)
- Physics Department, Texas AM University, College Station, Texas 77843-4242 (United States)
In the past few years a cryogenic Penning trap (RETRAP) has been operational at the Electron Beam Ion Trap (EBIT) facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The combination of RETRAP and EBIT provides a unique possibility of producing and re-trapping highly charged ions and cooling them to very low temperatures. Due to the high Coulomb potentials in such an ensemble of cold highly charged ions the Coulomb coupling parameter (the ratio of Coulomb potential to the thermal energy) can easily reach values of 172 and more. To study such systems is not only of interest in astrophysics to simulate White Dwarf star interiors but opens up new possibilities in a variety of areas (e.g. laser spectroscopy, cold highly charged ion beams). {copyright} {ital 1999 American Institute of Physics.}
- Research Organization:
- Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-7405-ENG-48
- OSTI ID:
- 703534
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-981122-; ISSN 0094-243X; TRN: 9919M0006
- Journal Information:
- AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 475, Issue 1; Conference: 15. international conference on the application of accelerators in research and industry, Denton, TX (United States), 4-7 Nov 1998; Other Information: PBD: Jun 1999
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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