2013/06/24 by P. Mandal, Mandal, P., M. Mukherjee +1
Physics and Astronomy · #Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph) #FOS: Physical sciences #physics.atom-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1306.5582
Colloquium paper, 9 pages, 6 figures
arxiv created 2013/06/24 · arxiv updated 2013/06/25
A linear ion trap setup has been developed for studying the dynamics of trapped ion cloud and thereby realizing possible systematics of a high precision measurement on a single ion within it. The dynamics of molecular nitrogen ion cloud has been investigated to extract the characteristics of the trap setup. The stability of trap operation has been studied with observation of narrow nonlinear resonances pointing out the region of instabilities within the broad stability region. The secular frequency has been measured and the motional spectra of trapped ion oscillation have been obtained by using electric dipole excitation. It is applied to study the space charge effect and the axial coupling in the radial plane.