Entwicklung einer Multiplexer Box für Radiofrequenzsignale und Simulation von Radiofrequenzanregungen in der PENTATRAP-Falle

The PENTATRAP-experiment in Heidelberg for high precision mass measurements is using a construction of 5 Penning traps and focuses on long-living heavy ions. This bachelor thesis is about the distribution of radiofrequency excitations to create a quadrupole field within a Penning trap. For this a module of a multiplexer box was developed and tested on suitability. This possibility of distributing should give more exibility with the excitation and also a saving of time between different measurements. The quadrupole excitation with radiofrequencies was simulated to obtain the optimized potentials of the trap electrodes. Those should be useful in the first startup of the experiment and can serve as a rough starting point