Genova Group

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Catching trap System

Technical Drawing (up immage) & Photo (down immage) It's possible to see the different electrodes that form the trap and allow the ATHENA collaboration to trap and cool antiprotons: the heaviest ingredient of AntiHydrogen



Catching trap Slow Control and DAQ

All the electronics equipment to manage the catching trap system was home built. From the project to the tests the system was developed by the Genova group. From applying voltages to detecting particles, everything was thought to be as much flexible as possible to allow new system implementations. We also projected and built a system to monitor the ATHENA traps voltages status. (get information)



Modes Detection and Plasma Heating

We developed a system to monitor plasma behaviour via modes detection. This method uses a sweep frequency drive and detect the plasma response. In the same way we are able to heat the plasma in a controlled way driving it near a mode frequency.



Plasma and Single Particle Dynamics Studies
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