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| WEPCH101 | Ion Motion in the Adiabatic Focuser | 2149 |
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The Adiabatic Focuser* works by having a focusing channel whose strength increases with distance down the channel. In this situation electrons of various energies and various transverse oscillation phase all are transversely focused. The concept works with external focusing, but would be very effective in a plasma ion focusing channel where the density of ions is simply increased as one goes down the channel. In the original work (Ref 1) motion of the ions was not included (as it was assumed to be a small effect). Recently, it has been suggested that ion motion in an adiabatic focuser would be significant and, even, preclude operation of the focuser as previously envisioned**. In this paper we numerically study the ion motion in the focuser. The ions clearly influence each other and, most importantly, are influenced by the electric field of the electrons being focused. It is shown that parameters can be selected such that the adiabatic focuser works as well as originally envisioned.
*P. Chen et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 64, 1231 (1990).**J. R. Rosenzweig, et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 195002 (2005). |