Atoms (Dec 2022)

Performance of a keV/u Ion Spectrometer for the FISIC Platform

  • Mariette Jolly,
  • Spyridon Voikopoulos,
  • Emily Lamour,
  • Alain Méry,
  • Angela Bräuning-Demian,
  • Jean-Yves Chesnel,
  • Alexandre Gumberidze,
  • Michael Lestinsky,
  • Stéphane Macé,
  • Christophe Prigent,
  • Jean-Marc Ramillon,
  • Jimmy Rangama,
  • Patrick Rousseau,
  • Daniel Schury,
  • Uwe Spillmann,
  • Sébastien Steydli,
  • Thomas Stöhlker,
  • Martino Trassinelli,
  • Dominique Vernhet

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/atoms10040146
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 4
p. 146

Abstract

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The design and performances of a newly built electrostatic charge state analyzer constructed to act as a spectrometer for keV/u ions are reported. It consists of two 90∘ curved electrodes enclosed by Matsuda electrodes. This setup was recently tested using Ar9+ and Ar12+ ion beams at an energy of 10 keV per charge unit. This spectrometer achieves a good separation of different charge states formed by electron capture processes during collisions between primary ions and the residual gas. Thanks to these first tests, we have identified up to three different background contributions on the detector that need to be reduced or suppressed.

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