Multiple Coulomb ordered strings of ions in a storage ring.
We explain that the anomalous frequency shifts of very close masses obtained in the high precision mass measurement experiments in the ESR storage ring result from the locking of Coulomb interacting strings of ions. Here two concentric strings which run horizontally close to each other are captured into a single string if their thermal clouds overlap and give up their identity.
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GSI Darmstadt, D-64291 Darmstadt, Germany. r.hasse@gsi.de