Abstract
A linear radio-frequency quadrupole ion guide and beam buncher has been installed at the ISOLTRAP mass spectrometry experiment at he ISOLDE facility at CERN. The apparatus is being used as a beam cooling, accumulation, and bunching system. It operates with a buffer gas that cools the injected ions and converts the quasicontinuous 60-keV beam from the ISOLDE facility to 2.5-keV beam pulses with improved normalized transverse emittance. Recent measurements suggest a capture efficiency of the ion guide of up to 40% and a cooling and bunching efficiency of at least 12% which is expected to still be increased. The improved ISOLTRAP setup has so far been very successfully in three on-line experiments.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 565-569 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | Nuclear Physics A |
| Volume | 701 |
| Issue number | 1-4 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Apr 22 2002 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Funding
This work was financially supported by the European Commission within the EXO-TRAPS RTD project under contract ERBFMGECT980099 as well as by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC).
Keywords
- Atomic masses
- Buffer gas cooling
- Ion guide
- Ion trap
- Mass spectrometry
- Radioactive ions beams