Stored-ion collisional relaxation to equilibrium

1 January 1988

journal article
research article
Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A

Vol. 37 (1) , 277-279
https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.37.277

Abstract

The rate of energy transfer between the radial and axial degrees of freedom of protons with measured temperature and number stored in a radio-frequency quadrupole ion trap is quantified. The results are discussed in terms of the theory of charged-particle collisional relaxation to thermal equilibrium.

Keywords

This publication has 9 references indexed in Scilit:

Considerations for electromagnetic antiproton traps
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms, 1987
Relaxation of a system of charged particles
Physical Review A, 1985
Strongly Coupled Nonneutral Ion Plasma
Physical Review Letters, 1984
Length-Dependent Containment of a Pure Electron-Plasma Column
Physical Review Letters, 1983
Charge Transfer from Atomic Hydrogen to $O^{+ 2}$ and $O^{+ 3}$ Ions with Electronvolt Energy
Physical Review Letters, 1982
Cooling of gases by laser radiation
Optics Communications, 1975
Polarization detection of trapped electrons via interaction with polarized atoms
The European Physical Journal A, 1971
Radiative Cooling of an Electrodynamically Contained Proton Gas
Journal of Applied Physics, 1969
Relaxation of a System of Particles with Coulomb Interactions
Physical Review B, 1957