Undergraduate Research at Jefferson Lab

Modeling and Constructing a Penning Trap

Student: Francisco Guzman Cajica

School: Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo

Mentored By: Carlos Hernandez-Garcia and Gabriel Palacios

In this work, we analyze the performance of a newly designed Penning trap with the objective of spreading autonomous traps with internal magnets along a Wien filter instead of having all of the penning traps clustered together inside an ion pump.