Particle Scattering at Potential Jumps in an Ambipolar Trap with a Thermal Barrier

摘要

Attention is directed in the present work to the effect of additional particle scattering at Debye potential jumps in modified ambipolar traps. Under certain conditions this scattering can lead to faster (than that due to pairwise collisions) filling of the barrier plug with central ions, which evidently can limit the efficiency of the thermal barrier. (ERA citation 08:038142)