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To beat this horse dead: I found the SIMION simulation of the "quadro logarithmic potential", which is what causes the bouncing you've brought up. It's basically using electric potential(/field) geometry of the inner spindle to trap the particles in such a way that you've dictated all variation in their horizontal movements (in terms of manyyyy cycles per second) to be only dependent on mass/charge. So I was slightly wrong about the mechanics, thank you. But then yeah, they'll emit radiation, which you can model as one dipole moment for each particle oscillating in the plane formed by your viewing angle and the Orbitrap's axis of symmetry. Anyway, biophysics is great, I'm just such a sucker for space.