Delayed bunching for multi-reflection time-of-flight mass separation
- Institut für Physik, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt Universität Greifswald, 17487 Greifswald (Germany)
- GANIL, CEA/DSM-CNRS/IN2P3, 14000 Caen (France)
- Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Saupfercheckweg 1, 69117 Heidelberg (Germany)
Many experiments are handicapped when the ion sources do not only deliver the ions of interest but also contaminations, i.e., unwanted ions of similar mass. In the recent years, multi-reflection time-of-flight mass separation has become a promising method to isolate the ions of interest from the contaminants, in particular for measurements with low-energy short-lived nuclides. To further improve the performance of multi-reflection mass separators with respect to the limitations by space-charge effects, the simultaneously trapped ions are spatially widely distributed in the apparatus. Thus, the ions can propagate with reduced Coulomb interactions until, finally, they are bunched by a change in the trapping conditions for high-resolution mass separation. Proof-of-principle measurements are presented.
- OSTI ID:
- 22490700
- Journal Information:
- AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 1668, Issue 1; Conference: 11. international workshop on non-neutral plasmas, Takamatsu (Japan), 1-4 Dec 2014; Other Information: (c) 2015 AIP Publishing LLC; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0094-243X
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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