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Concept of a 6-T Penning trap at liquid-He temperature for the accumulation of positrons

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High densities of ultra cold positrons are required for applications such as positronium production, scattering processes with atoms, surface analysis, cooling of highly charged ions and antihydrogen production. At the University of Aarhus, Denmark, an accelerator based slow positron source delivers about 5 × 104 positrons within a 10 ns bunch at a repetition rate of 10 Hz. The energy spread is below 1 eV and the beam diameter is about 1 mm. The positron bunches shall be injected into a 6-T Penning trap at the temperature of liquid helium. The bunches can be captured at nearly 100% efficiency by a fast time variation of the trap potential. The cyclotron motion cools down by synchrotron radiation with a time constant of 80 ms. The axial motion can be cooled by coupling to the radial motion or by resistive cooling in a tuned circuit. By stacking of 100 pulses about 5 × 106 positrons can be accumulated within 10 s. After this time most of the positrons have cooled down sufficiently that the trapping cycle can be started again. At the anticipated accumulation rate a positron plasma at the space charge limit should be obtainable within 1 h.

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Ley, R., Quint, W., Stahl, S. et al. Concept of a 6-T Penning trap at liquid-He temperature for the accumulation of positrons. Hyperfine Interactions 115, 181–184 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1012613125357

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