Trapped charged particles. A graduate textbook with problems and solutions. Lectures of the second winter school on physics with trapped charged particles, Les Houches, France, January 2015 (Q2811870)

A useful textbook on plasma phenomena related to trapping of charged particles which includes basic theoretical analyses as well as details of corresponding experimental setups. It is a valuable literature not only for graduate students but also for professionals in related fields of physics.NEWLINENEWLINEThe whole text of the book is written in 10+434 pages divided into eighteen chapters each of them written by different authors, prominent experts from known worldwide plasma physics institutions, tackles a specific topic and ending with a set of problems and solutions, and list of references.NEWLINENEWLINEChapter 1 deals with principles of Penning traps and their use in various experiments involving spectroscopic measurements. Radio frequency traps and their applications are explained in Chapter 2 while Chapter 3 gives an overview of the guiding center approximation in various plasma configurations including applications in magnetic mirror confinement experiments. Chapter 4 is focused on particle and plasma confinement by toroidal magnetic fields. Experiments and basic theory of achieving ultrahigh vacuum and special laser cooling techniques is described in details in Chapters 5 and 6 while the other, non-laser, cooling procedures are found in Chapter 7. Chapter 8 is devoted to accurate computations of ion cloud dynamics, integration algorithms, and on how to take into account different plasma parameters in a Monte Carlo numerical approach. Chapters 9 and 10 describe plasma properties in Penning traps and plasma linear modes of oscillation, respectively. Rotating wall techniques for achieving steady-state conditions and near-thermal conditions in plasma Penning traps and correlations in plasma traps is elaborated in Chapters 11 and 12, respectively. Phenomenon of autoresonance and its excitation in mechanical systems and plasmas is presented in Chapter 13. Modern problems related to physics of antimatter, antihydrogen in particular, are elaborated in Chapter 14. Here one finds techniques of producing antihydrogen by positrons and antiprotons from standard trapped charged particles, and its spectral properties among other things. Chapter 15 is an introduction into physics of spatially order structures known as ion Coulomb crystals which includes their formation and practical applications. The last three sections of the book, Chapters 16, 17 and 18, deal with problems of trapped cold molecular ions, their applications in determining fundamental symmetries in nature, and in setting accurate optical frequency standards.