Heater Control and Plasma Optimization Matthew Bohman ALPHA Collaboration University of Michigan Semester at CERN 1
Bakeout and Heater Control 2
Heater Control Schematic 3
New System Serial Data Current 4
Plasma Optimization 5
Three Body Recombination Anti-Hydrogen Formation Radiative Recombination Small, dense, and cold plasmas will maximize anti-hydrogen formation rates 6
Formation Rates 7
Rotating Wall 8
Uncompressed Plasmas 9
Partially Compressed, Centrifugally Separated 10
Fully Compressed Plasmas 11
Cooling 12
Evaporative and Sympathetic Cooling 13
Evaporative Cooling 14
Sources: Slide 6, 7, 8, 13: images and equations from E. Butler, Antihydrogen formation, dynamics and trapping, Ph. D. thesis, Swansea University (2011). Slide 12: image from EUROfusion 15