Computer simulation of an electron target for the ESR storage ring of GSI Darmstadt (please find website at www.gsi.de/portrait)
This project was challenging because of the mutually exclusive requirements of a high density, low temperature electron cloud used in collision experiments with highly charged heavy ions for fundamental research.
The result was a novel design of the electron gun and beam guidance system. Both were designed using computer simulations that take into account the Coulomb interaction by means of a self-consistent iterative approximation of space charge.