Skip to main content
U.S. flag

An official website of the United States government

Official websites use .gov
A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.

Secure .gov websites use HTTPS
A lock ( ) or https:// means you’ve safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.

Capture and isolation of highly-charged ions in a compact Penning trap: V12

Published

Author(s)

Samuel M. Brewer, Nicholas D. Guise, Joseph N. Tan

Abstract

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)
Volume
88

Keywords

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)

Citation

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 (Accessed October 31, 2024)

Issues

If you have any questions about this publication or are having problems accessing it, please contact reflib@nist.gov.

Created December 4, 2013, Updated July 25, 2024