This chapter gives a brief account of the history of the Penning trap, the central characters involved in its development, and presents the main fields of operation of such traps together with a discussion of the sense in which the word ‘confinement’ needs to be understood in this context. It also clarifies some of the most important terminology and introduces the main ingredients of a quantitative description of confinement properties.
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Vogel, M. (2018). A Bit of History and Context. In Springer Series on Atomic, Optical, and Plasma Physics (Vol. 100, pp. 1–8). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76264-7_1
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