Multipole Traps as Tools in Environmental Studies
Abstract
Trapping of microparticles, nanoparticles and aerosols is an issue of major interest for physics and chemistry. We present a setup intended for microparticle trapping in multipole linear Paul trap geometries, operating under Standard Ambient Temperature and Pressure (SATP) conditions. A 16-electrode linear trap geometry has been designed and tested, with an aim to confine a larger number of particles with respect to quadrupole traps and thus enhance the signal to noise ratio, as well as to study microparticle dynamical stability in electrodynamic fields. Experimental tests and numerical simulations suggest that multipole traps are very suited for high precision mass spectrometry measurements in case of different microparticle species or to identify the presence of certain aerosols and polluting agents in the atmosphere. Particle traps represent versatile tools for environment monitoring or for the study of many-body Coulomb systems and dusty plasmas.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1512.05522,
title = {Multipole Traps as Tools in Environmental Studies},
author = {Bogdan M. Mihalcea and Cristina Stan and Liviu C. Giurgiu and Andreea Groza and Agavni Surmeian and Mihai Ganciu and Vladimir Filinov and Dmitry Lapitsky and Lidiya Deputatova and Leonid Vasilyak and Vladimir Pecherkin and Vladimir Vladimirov and Roman Syrovatka},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1512.05522},
year = {2023}
}
Comments
17 pages, 8 figures