Published March 30, 2009 | Version v1
Journal article

Investigations on Cooling Mechanisms of Highly Charged Ions at HITRAP

  • 1. Gesellschaft fuer Schwerionenforschung, D-64291 Darmstadt (Germany)
  • 2. National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, Michigan State University, 48824-1321 East Lansing (United States)

Description

The upcoming facility HITRAP (Highly Charged Ion TRAP) at GSI will enable high-precision atomic-physics investigations on heavy, highly charged ions at extremely low energies. Species up to U92+ will be produced at the GSI accelerator complex by stripping of relativistic ions and injected into the Experimental Storage Ring (ESR) where they are electron-cooled and decelerated to 4 MeV/u. After ejection out of the ESR and further deceleration in a linear decelerator bunches of 105 ions will be injected into a Penning trap and cooled to 4 K via electron and resistive cooling. Simulations with a Particle-In-Cell (PIC) code have been carried out to study the dynamics of the ion cloud in the Cooler Trap with focus on resistive cooling in presence of space charge.

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
AIP Conference Proceedings
Journal Volume
1114
Journal Issue
1
Journal Page Range
p. 179-184
ISSN
0094-243X
CODEN
APCPCS

Conference

Title
Workshop on non-neutral plasmas 2008
Acronym
Non-neutral plasma physics VII
Dates
16-20 Jun 2008
Place
New York, NY (United States)

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(c) 2009 American Institute of Physics