Performance Bounds of Magnetic Traps for Neutral Particles

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Main Authors: Liska, Jakub, Jelinek, Lukas, Capek, Miloslav
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Published: 2022
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author Liska, Jakub
Jelinek, Lukas
Capek, Miloslav
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Jelinek, Lukas
Capek, Miloslav
contents Knowledge of the fundamental limitations on a magnetic trap for neutral particles is of paramount interest to designers as it allows for the rapid assessment of the feasibility of specific trap requirements or the quality of a given design. In this paper, performance limitations are defined for convexity of magnetic trapping potential and bias field using a local approximation in the trapping center. As an example, the fundamental bounds are computed for current supporting regions in the form of a spherical shell, a cylindrical region, and a box. A Pareto-optimal set considering both objectives is found and compared with known designs of the Baseball trap and Ioffe-Pritchard trap. The comparison reveals a significant gap in the performance of classical trap designs from the fundamental limitations. This indicates a possibility of improved trap designs and modern techniques of shape synthesis are applied in order to prove their existence. The topologically optimized traps perform almost two times better as compared to conventional designs. Last, but not least, the developed framework might serve as a prototype for the formulation of fundamental limitations on plasma confinement in a wider sense.
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Liska, Jakub
Jelinek, Lukas
Capek, Miloslav
Computational Physics
Plasma Physics
Knowledge of the fundamental limitations on a magnetic trap for neutral particles is of paramount interest to designers as it allows for the rapid assessment of the feasibility of specific trap requirements or the quality of a given design. In this paper, performance limitations are defined for convexity of magnetic trapping potential and bias field using a local approximation in the trapping center. As an example, the fundamental bounds are computed for current supporting regions in the form of a spherical shell, a cylindrical region, and a box. A Pareto-optimal set considering both objectives is found and compared with known designs of the Baseball trap and Ioffe-Pritchard trap. The comparison reveals a significant gap in the performance of classical trap designs from the fundamental limitations. This indicates a possibility of improved trap designs and modern techniques of shape synthesis are applied in order to prove their existence. The topologically optimized traps perform almost two times better as compared to conventional designs. Last, but not least, the developed framework might serve as a prototype for the formulation of fundamental limitations on plasma confinement in a wider sense.
title Performance Bounds of Magnetic Traps for Neutral Particles
topic Computational Physics
Plasma Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.13192