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Mass Spectrometry
Brief introduction(part1)
I. Sivacek flerovlab.jinr.ru
2012 Student Practice in JINR Fields of Research 1.oct.2012
Mass spectrometer• Ion source – analyzing magnet – detector (basic setup)
– Isotope identification– Molecule identification– Chromatography– Microscopes – AMS– RIBs and many more…
Charged particles and ions
• Neutral atoms (p = e)• Charged atoms = ions (p ≠ e)
• Neutral particles (f.e. neutron)• Charged particles (f.e. proton, electron…)
• Charged = with electric charge
How to create ion ?• If energy is given to neutral atom
– Excitation, de-excitation (a)– Ionization (b)
• Thermal ionization• Chemical ionization• ECR (uniform magnetic field; plasma; 2,45 GHz microwave
power)
E=hν
Incident radiation
-
(a)
(b)(Or other kind of energy)
Ions with kinetic energy
• Interactions of charged particles and ions: – ionization – excitation– elastic scattering– bremmstrahlung
Ion ionization• Bethe formula for ion energy loss
• α ~ 1 MeV/cm(1 atm = 101 kPa = 760 Torr)
• Bragg curve – stopping power
=> Vacuum is needed !
Electron density of target Ion charge Ion velocity
Electric and magnetic field
• Electric field:(accelerates)
• Magnetic field E = |U2 – U1|
Lorentz Law
(1)
Mass separation in magnetic field
• Mass-over-charge ratior
Generally at E-M field
mag. field: E=0; |Fm| = qvB.sinα
radius
=1
=> r = (m/q)(v/B) (2)
Cyclotron
• Lorentz force in magnetic field keeps orbits
• Electrical field between duants accelerates ions
• Cyclotron frequency (particle velocity does not depend on time of flight thru magnetic field)*
Duants (electrodes with HF oscillating electric field)
Magnetic field
Beamline
* (2) => r = const. v
Detection of particles
• Generally, all types of detector can be used– Spectroscopic detectors
• Semiconductor• Scintillators• Gas detectors• Time-of-flight (and many more)
– Counters (quantitative analysis)• Gas detectors• Pick-ups• Faraday cups (and many many more…)
Warning: Since high ionization
ability of charged ions, proper
choice of detector strongly
depends on application and
characteristics of detected beam !!
Mass resolution
• Ability of device to resolve between two masses m and m+Δm
• Defined as (by FWHM)
cislo stripu
inte
nzi
ta [n
A]
Stripstrip number
Dispersion on ion source
Resolution on ion source-magnet-detector array
Radius of ion in magnetic field
Dispersion after magnetic sector D [mm/%p]
D = Δx/ΔBρ = Δx/ΔpTranslation on focal plane Ion impulse