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Title: Highly charged ion trapping and cooling

Abstract

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.

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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Defense Programs (DP) (US)
OSTI Identifier:
2836
Report Number(s):
UCRL-JC-132208; DP0102012; 96-ERD-052
DP0102012; 96-ERD-052; TRN: US0101341
DOE Contract Number:  
W-7405-ENG-48
Resource Type:
Conference
Resource Relation:
Conference: 15th International Conference on the Application of Accelerators in Research and Industry, Denton, TX (US), 11/04/1998--11/07/1998; Other Information: PBD: 22 Oct 1998
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; 71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; ACCELERATORS; COULOMB FIELD; CRYOGENICS; ELECTRON BEAMS; ION BEAMS; LASER SPECTROSCOPY; LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY; PENNING ION SOURCES; WHITE DWARF STARS; QUENCHING

Citation Formats

Beck, B R, Church, D A, Gruber, L, Holder, J P, Schneider, D, and Steiger, J. Highly charged ion trapping and cooling. United States: N. p., 1998. Web.
Beck, B R, Church, D A, Gruber, L, Holder, J P, Schneider, D, & Steiger, J. Highly charged ion trapping and cooling. United States.
Beck, B R, Church, D A, Gruber, L, Holder, J P, Schneider, D, and Steiger, J. 1998. "Highly charged ion trapping and cooling". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/2836.
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title = {Highly charged ion trapping and cooling},
author = {Beck, B R and Church, D A and Gruber, L and Holder, J P and Schneider, D and Steiger, J},
abstractNote = {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.},
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place = {United States},
year = {Thu Oct 22 00:00:00 EDT 1998},
month = {Thu Oct 22 00:00:00 EDT 1998}
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