PPT Slide
Confinement of exotic antimatter plasmas
- Conventional Penning-Malmberg traps cannot confine quasi-neutral plasmas such as electron-positron or antiproton-positron plasma
- (Unconfined) electron beam-positron plasma interactions observed (Greaves and Surko, UCSD)
- Nested Penning trap for antihydrogen production - no antihydrogen produced yet ? (Gabrielse, Harvard U.)
- Electrostatic wells make the interaction region exponentially small
- CNT can trivially confine such plasmas since it uses pure magnetic confinement.
- Efficient injection methods need to be developed