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Optimization of a charge-state analyzer for ECRIS beams
A detailed experimental and simulation study of the extraction of a 24 keV
He-ion beam from an ECR ion source and the subsequent beam transport through an
analyzing magnet is presented. We find that such a slow ion beam is very
sensitive to space-charge forces, but also that the neutralization of the
beam's space charge by secondary electrons is virtually complete for beam
currents up to at least 0.5 mA. The beam emittance directly behind the
extraction system is 65 pi mm mrad and is determined by the fact that the ion
beam is extracted in the strong magnetic fringe field of the ion source. The
relatively large emittance of the beam and its non-paraxiality lead, in
combination with a relatively small magnet gap, to significant beam losses and
a five-fold increase of the effective beam emittance during its transport
through the analyzing magnet. The calculated beam profile and phase-space
distributions in the image plane of the analyzing magnet agree well with
measurements. The kinematic and magnet aberrations have been studied using the
calculated second-order transfer map of the analyzing magnet, with which we can
reproduce the phase-space distributions of the ion beam behind the analyzing
magnet. Using the transfer map and trajectory calculations we have worked out
an aberration compensation scheme based on the addition of compensating
hexapole components to the main dipole field by modifying the shape of the
poles. The simulations predict that by compensating the kinematic and geometric
aberrations in this way and enlarging the pole gap the overall beam transport
efficiency can be increased from 16 to 45%
Accurately accounting for effects on times-of-flight caused by finite field-transition times during the ejection of ions from a storage trap: A study for TOF and MRTOF mass spectrometry
In applied forms of time-of-flight mass spectrometry utilizing ion storage
devices prior to an analysis device, a non instantaneous electric ejection
pulse applied in the region of ion storage is used to accelerate ions into the
time-of-flight analyzer. The calculated mass value of the ions from the
time-of-flight is dependent on the duration of the field transition up to full
strength. For novel applications dedicated to precision measurements, such as
multi-reflection time-of-flight mass spectrometry of short-lived isotopes, the
goal is to continuously decrease the measurement uncertainty while providing a
mass accuracy on the same order. Even though dynamic-field models for
time-of-flight mass spectrometry have been considered in the past for
technological advances, it is important to study the accuracy of the measured
mass in this context. Using a simplified linear model for the field transition,
we provide a basic investigation of the scenario, and discuss the deviation
from the classical "mass-over-charge" dependency of the ions' time-of-flight,
which becomes violated. The emerging mass discrepancy depends on the distance
between the mass of the ion used for calibration and that of the ion of
interest and, in extreme cases, can increase to about one percent for systems
with short times-of-flight. However, for typical conditions in single-reference
multi-reflection time-of-flight mass spectrometry, mass deviations caused by
this effect typically remain below the 1 ppm level. If a mass calibration using
two or more ion species is possible during the measurement, the effect becomes
negligible for appropriate choices of reference masses.Comment: 14 pages, 9 figure
A Basic Design Principle of the Magnetic Part of the High-Resolution Mass Separator of the Japanese Hadron Project
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Ion-Optical Design of the High-Resolution Mass Separator for the Japanese Hadron Project (IV)
開始ページ、終了ページ: 冊子体のページ付
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