HU/AdSM, Higashi-Hiroshima, Japan
Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima, Japan
Kyoto University, Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto, Japan
The beam physics group of Hiroshima University has developed non-neutral plasma traps dedicated solely to a wide range of beam dynamics studies. Those unique experimental tools approximately reproduce, in the laboratory frame, a many-body Coulomb system that is physically equivalent to a charged-particle beam observed in the center-of-mass frame. We have designed and constructed two different types of traps that employ either a radio-frequency electric quadrupole field or an axial magnetic field for transverse particle confinement. The former type is commonly referred to as "linear Paul trap" and the latter as "Penning trap". At present, three Paul traps and one Penning trap are operational while a new Penning trap for beam halo experiments is under construction. Each of these compact experimental facilities consists of a trap, many power supplies, a vacuum system, a computer control system, etc., and is called "S-POD (Simulator for Particle Orbit Dynamics)". S-POD is particularly useful for fundamental studies of high-intensity and high-brightness hadron beams. We here report on recent experimental outputs from S-POD and also briefly describe some future plans.
