The retrapping of highly charged Xeaf and Th68fq72+ ions extracted from an "electron-beam ion trap" (EBIT) is demonstrated after injection of the ions into RETRAP, a cryogenic Penning trap (up to 6 T magnetic field) currently with an open cylinder design. Ion extraction in a short pulse (5-20 ,us) from EBIT, essential for efficient retrapping, is employed. The ions are slowed down upon entering a deceleration tube mounted above the trap within the magfietic field. The potential is then rapidly (100 ns) decreased, enabling low-energy ions to enter the trap. Capture efficiencies up to 25% are observed via detection of the delayed ion release pulse with a detector below the trap. Signal voltages induced in a tuned circuit duqi,to single and multifile ions have been observed by tuning the ion resonant axial oscillation frequericies for different ions. Results from transporting and retrapping of the ions, as well as their detection, are described and the trapping efficiency is discussed. The motivation for these studies is to cool the trapped very highly charged ions to low temperatures ((4 K) in order to perform ultrahigh-resolution precision spectroscopy, collision studies at ultralow energies, and to observe phase transitions in Coulomb clusters of highly charged ions.
Measurements of relative dielectronic recombination (DR) cross sections for Auorinelike xenon {Xe +) are presented. Recombination takes place in an electron-beam ion trap, where decay rates are obtained as the ions recombine with beam electrons. Experimental data are obtained by counting the number of ions that remain, as a function of time, following the recombination period. The counting is accomplished through the use of an ion-extraction system. An ultralow beam current, 2 mA, was used to obtain an energy resolution of 10.6 eV full width at half maximum. The experimentally measured resonances are compared to convolved theoretical DR resonance strengths. The agreement with theory is excellent.
Ions with charge states as high as 80ϩ, produced in the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory electron beam ion trap were extracted and transferred to a Penning ion trap ͑RETRAP͒. RETRAP was operated at cryogenic temperature in the field of a superconducting magnet. The stored low-energy ions collided occasionally with H 2 molecules in the ultrahigh-vacuum environment of the trap, capturing one or two electrons and reducing the charge state of the ions. The number of ions was monitored nondestructively by ramping the axial oscillation frequencies of the ions through resonance with a tuned circuit composed in part of trap capacitance and an external inductor. This produced resonance signals whose square is proportional to the number of ions in each charge state. These signals were recorded vs storage time to determine the electroncapture rates. From these rates the relative electron-capture cross sections were obtained using estimates of the mean ion energies based on modeling the ion storage, and with the aid of a density calibration measurement using Ar 11ϩ . The measured total electron-capture cross sections are consistent with a linear increase with charge state q. The cross-section data for the highest charge states lie above the predictions of the absorbing sphere model, but agree within uncertainties in both experiment and theory. The true double-capture crosssection fraction for qϾ35 is near 25%. The results are discussed with relation to measurements on lower charge states, and with theory.
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