TY - JOUR
T1 - Self-bunching induced by negative effective mass instability in an electrostatic ion beam trap
AU - Strasser, D.
AU - Heber, O.
AU - Goldberg, S.
AU - Zajfman, D.
PY - 2003/3/14
Y1 - 2003/3/14
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
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U2 - 10.1088/0953-4075/36/5/314
DO - 10.1088/0953-4075/36/5/314
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AN - SCOPUS:0037436582
SN - 0953-4075
VL - 36
SP - 953
EP - 959
JO - Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics
JF - Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics
IS - 5
ER -