To this end single antiprotons are stored in an advanced Penning trap system, which has a double-trap system at its core.
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The basic scheme for such a container, called a Penning trap, was devised in 1936 by Frans Michel Penning, a Dutch scientist.
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At the University of Washington, Hans Dehmelt captured Gabrielse 1986 ) that has become a handbook for other experimenters who use a Penning trap.
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Antiprotons are received by the Antiproton Decelerator and are'mixed'with positrons from a specially-designed positron accumulator in a versatile Penning trap.
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Gabrielse believes the technique will eventually produce enough cold positrons that when placed in a Penning trap and combined with cold antiprotons, they will yield antihydrogen.
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Ions trapped in a Penning trap are excited by an RF electric field until they impact the wall of the trap, where the detector is located.
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Both TRAP and ATRAP teams used trapped antiprotons within a nested Penning trap device to produce antihydrogen atoms slow enough to be trapped in a magnetic trap.
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Annihilation reactions, which would start soon after the Penning trap is destroyed, is to provide the energy to begin the nuclear fusion in the thermonuclear fuel.
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Inside these containers, known as Penning traps, magnetic fields prevent the antiparticles from contacting the material wall of the container-- lest they annihilate on contact.
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However, to achieve this Penning traps must have the ion to be measured delivered to it very precisely and with certainty that it is indeed the desired ion.
