Magnetic Angle Changer for Studies of Electronically Excited Long-Living Atomic States

Abstract

A new geometry of a magnetic angle changer (MAC) device is proposed, which allows experiments to be run on electron impact excitation of long-lived states of target atoms. The details of the device’s design are presented and discussed together with a numerical analysis of its magnetic field.

Keywords

• backscattering
• electron optics
• inelastic collisions
• numerical simulations