Criteria for the confinement of plasmas consisting of a positive and negative component in Penning type traps with nested electric potential wells are presented. Computational techniques for the self-consistent calculation of potential and plasma density distributions are developed. Analyses are presented of the use of nested well Penning traps for several applications. The analyses include: calculations of timescales relevant to the applications, e.g. reaction, confinement and relaxation timescales, self-consistent computations, and consideration of other physical phenomenon important to the applications. Possible applications of a nested well penning trap include production of high charge state ions, studies of high charge state ions, and production of antihydrogen. In addition the properties of a modified Penning trap consisting of an electric potential well applied along a radial magnetic field are explored.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc2647 |
| Date | 08 1900 |
| Creators | Dolliver, Darrell |
| Contributors | Ordonez, Carlos A., Weathers, Duncan L., Roberts, James A., Hu, Zhibing |
| Publisher | University of North Texas |
| Source Sets | University of North Texas |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | Text |
| Rights | Public, Copyright, Dolliver, Darrell, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved. |
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