Heavy-ion induced desorption yields of cryogenic surfaces bombarded with 4.2  MeV/u lead ions

Abstract

The ion-induced desorption experiment, installed in the CERN Heavy-Ion Accelerator LINAC 3, has been used to study the dynamic outgassing of cryogenic surfaces. Two different targets, bare and gold-coated copper, were bombarded under perpendicular impact with 4.2 MeV/u Pb^{54+} ions. Partial pressure rises of H_{2}, CH_{4}, CO, and CO_{2} and effective desorption yields were measured at 300, 77, and 6.3 K using single shot and continuous ion bombardment techniques. We find that the heavy-ion-induced desorption yield is temperature dependent and investigate the influence of CO gas cryosorbed at 6.3 K. The gain in desorption yield reduction at cryogenic temperature vanishes after several monolayers of CO are cryosorbed on both targets. In this paper we describe the new cryogenic target assembly, the temperature-dependent pressure rise, desorption yield, and gas adsorption measurements.