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Self-bunching induced by negative effective mass instability in an electrostatic ion beam trap

D Strasser, O Heber, S Goldberg and D Zajfman

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We demonstrate that the synchronization effect, which has been observed when a bunch of ions oscillates between two mirrors in an electrostatic ion beam trap, can be explained as a negative effective mass instability. We derive simple necessary conditions for the existence of a regime in which this dispersionless behaviour occurs and demonstrate that, in this regime, the ion trap can be used as a high resolution mass spectrometer.


PACS

29.25.-t Particle sources and targets

41.75.-i Charged-particle beams

29.27.Eg Beam handling; beam transport

Subjects

Accelerators, beams and electromagnetism

Nuclear physics

Instrumentation and measurement

Particle physics and field theory

Dates

Issue 5 (14 March 2003)

Received 22 November 2002, in final form 8 January 2003

Published 24 February 2003



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