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A helical, current-carrying magnetic field source (the corkscrew) is described; it perturbs an axial uniform magnetic field B/sub 0/ such that the transverse energy components (ET) of selected particles moving along the sxis are increased or decreased monotonically. It is noted that, since the corkscrew has no over-all effect on B/sub 0/, the change in ET must result from a change in the particle's magnetic moment. The use of pairs of these devices in magnetic mirror machines to trap particles is suggested. (T.F.H.)
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Richard C. Wingerson (1961) studied this question.
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