Author: Eseev, M.K.
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TUPPB005 LEPTA Project: Towards Positronium 316
 
  • A.G. Kobets, E.V. Ahmanova, V.I. Lokhmatov, I.N. Meshkov, V. Pavlov, A.Yu. Rudakov, A.A. Sidorin, S. Yakovenko
    JINR, Dubna, Moscow Region, Russia
  • M.K. Eseev
    NAFU, Arkhangelsk, Russia
 
  The project of the Low Energy Positron Toroidal Accumulator (LEPTA) is under development at JINR. The LEPTA facility is a small positron storage ring equipped with the electron coolin system. The project positron energy is of 2 – 10 keV. The main goal of the facility is to generate an intense flux of positronium atoms – the bound state of electron and positron. Storage ring of LEPTA facility was commissioned in September 2004 and was under development up to now. The positron injector has been constructed in 2005 - 2010, and beam transfer channel – in 2011. By the end of August 2011 experiments on electron and positron injection into the ring have been started. The recent results are presented here.  
 
TUPPB006 Compression and Confinement of Positron Clouds in the Surko Trap of LEPTA Facility 319
 
  • M.K. Eseev, A.N. Vititnev
    NAFU, Arkhangelsk, Russia
  • E.V. Ahmanova, A.G. Kobets, I.N. Meshkov, A.Yu. Rudakov, S. Yakovenko
    JINR, Dubna, Moscow Region, Russia
 
  A bunch of positrons confined in a cylindrical Penning-Malmberg trap can be compressed radially by applying a rotating asymmetric dipolar electric field. An explanation of this effect presented in the report is based on the solutions of particle 3D dynamics equations in the fields of the trap taking into account the positron collisions with a neutral buffer gas. The result agrees well with experimental data obtained at the positron injector of LEPTA facility at JINR. Essential feature of the compression process is resonant character of applied rotating field and coincidence its frequency with the frequency of longitudinal positron bouncing in the trap.