Abstract
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.
| Original language | American English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 953-959 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Journal | Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue number | 5 |
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| State | Published - 14 Mar 2003 |
| Externally published | Yes |