Verifying the accuracy of the TITAN Penning-trap mass spectrometer

  • M. Brodeur
  • , V. L. Ryjkov
  • , T. Brunner
  • , S. Ettenauer
  • , A. T. Gallant
  • , V. V. Simon
  • , M. J. Smith
  • , A. Lapierre
  • , R. Ringle
  • , P. Delheij
  • , M. Good
  • , D. Lunney
  • , J. Dilling

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Abstract

TITAN (TRIUMF's Ion Traps for Atomic and Nuclear science) is an online facility designed to carry out high-precision mass measurements on singly and highly charged radioactive ions. The TITAN Penning trap has been built and optimized in order to perform such measurements with an accuracy in the sub ppb-range. A detailed characterization of the TITAN Penning trap is presented and a new compensation method is derived and demonstrated, verifying the performance in the range of sub-ppb.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)20-31
Number of pages12
JournalInternational Journal of Mass Spectrometry
Volume310
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 15 2012

Funding

This work was supported by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) . S.E. acknowledges support from the Vanier CGS program, T.B. from the Evangelisches Studienwerk e.V. Villigst, A.G. from the NSERC PGS-M program and D.L. from TRIUMF during his 2007\u20132008 sabbatical.

Keywords

  • Exotic isotope
  • High-precision mass measurement
  • Ion trap
  • Penning trap
  • Radio-nuclide
  • Radioactive isotope

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