Containing/transporting charged particles

摘要

Particle storing apparatus including only one electric field restraining charged particles, such as antiprotons, in an ultrahigh vacuum from striking a container surface for a half-life of at least 1 hour. Depending on implementation, restraining can be devoid of a magnetic field, and the container can be devoid of cryogenic cooling or need not include a dewar.

主权项

1. Particle storing apparatus comprising:
a container in which an electrostatic field, and substantially no magnetic field, is restraining charged particles moving in an ultra-high vacuum from striking an internal surface of the container for a half-life of at least 1 hour, said electric field configured to synthesize a piecewise integrable optical system such that said restraining is caused by movement of the charged particles through the electrostatic field.