That many energetic ions ought to cause some sort of a stir, but he doubted they'd know what they were looking at.
The major by-product was the tunnel of energetic ions indistinguishable from lightning.
One such design has a curved electrostatic path so that the more energetic ions are forced round the outer part of the bend.
Another such design incorporates an electrostatic mirror in which the more energetic ions penetrate more deeply before reflection.
In addition, an important contribution to the ring current is provided by energetic ions with energy of more than about 10 kev.
It turns out to be simple to remove, or strip, electrons from an energetic ion.
Filaments like glistening hair would wave and shimmer in the slow sway of ancient, energetic ions.
Alternatively, it could be heated by energetic ions and electrons from the magnetosphere or by some unknown uv absorber.
The more energetic ions penetrate deeper into the reflectron, and take a slightly longer path to the detector.
The intermediate region where a splitting of the high energetic ions from the less energetic species can be observed.