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Physics with electrostatic rings and traps

REVIEW ARTICLE

L H Andersen1, O Heber2 and D Zajfman3,4

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TOPICAL REVIEW

The recent development of electrostatic devices which allow us to store keV ion beams has launched several new kinds of investigations. We review the basic ideas behind the development of the electrostatic ion storage ring and the electrostatic ion beam trap techniques. The various experiments performed with atomic and molecular ion beams, ranging from the measurement of lifetimes of metastable atomic states up to biological applications and single component plasma studies are discussed.


PACS

41.85.Ne Electrostatic lenses, septa

32.70.Cs Oscillator strengths, lifetimes, transition moments

37.20.+j Atomic and molecular beam sources and techniques

41.20.Cv Electrostatics; Poisson and Laplace equations, boundary-value problems

Subjects

Atomic and molecular physics

Accelerators, beams and electromagnetism

Optics, quantum optics and lasers

Dates

Issue 11 (14 June 2004)

Received 26 February 2004

Published 17 May 2004



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