I have tried to explain that each of the mass analyzers discussed has specific merits and
limitations. The picture present in your mind depends on the side from which you look (Fig …

Publisher Summary This chapter reviews the high-resolution experiments that have
employed the stored ion technique. The main advantage of the stored ion techniques is that …

Over the last quarter of this century, revolutionary advances have been made both in kind
and in precision in the application of particle traps to the study of thephysics of charged …

This second volume of the Charged Particle Traps deals with the rapidly expanding body of
research exploiting the electromagnetic confinement of ions, whose principles and …

A laser‐produced plasma has been shown to be an effective means of producing metal ions,
which are subsequently stored in an ion trap. The output from a Nd: YAG laser is focused …

The ground-state hyperfine splitting of the Ba+ 137 ion has been measured with a precision
of 4.6× 10− 11. About 10 5 ions were confined in a rf quadrupole trap for many hours …

The spatial density distribution of Ba+ ions, confined in a rf quadrupole trap, has been
measured by laser scanning across the trap. This allows to determine the ion temperature …

Ion-collision and ion-excited level mean lifetime measurements carried out in Paul, Penning
and Kingdon ion traps are briefly reviewed. Low energy spin-dependent charged particle …

The density distribution of metastable 1 s 2 s 3 S 1 Li+ ions confined in a radio‐frequency
quadrupole ion trap has been studied using a laser scanning technique. The laser beam …

The largest systematic uncertainty in the performance of atomic frequency standards using a
cloud of ions stored in an rf quadrupole trap is the second-order Doppler shift which …