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Ideal Gas Approximation for an Ion Cloud in a Penning Trap

  • Martin Kretzschmar

Abstract

Assuming a sufficiently low density of the trapped particles the methods of equilibrium statistical mechanics for non-interacting particles are used to find expectation values and distribution functions for the most interesting 1-particle observables. The results are applied in a perturbation calculation to estimate space charge effects at low particle densities

Received: 1990-5-21
Published Online: 2014-6-2
Published in Print: 1990-8-1

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