The ILIAMS project - An RFQ ion beam cooler for selective laser photodetachment at VERA

Autor(en)

Martin Martschini, Dag Hanstorp, Johannes Lachner, Christoph Marek, Alfred Priller, Peter Steier, Paul Wasserburger, Robin Golser

Abstrakt

Selective laser photodetachment of anions is a novel technique for isobar suppression in Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (AMS). Ion-laser interaction times on the order of ms required for near-complete isobar suppression are achieved by retarding the ions in a gas-filled radio frequency quadrupole cooler. Inside this RFQ, the cooled anion beam is overlapped collinearly with an intense cw-laser beam. Within the Ion Laser InterAction Mass Spectrometry (ILIAMS) project at the University of Vienna, a dedicated injector beamline has been coupled to the VERA-AMS facility to explore and develop this method. In this work, experimental investigations on ion beam transmission, stability and elemental selectivity of the new setup are presented.

A 532 nm laser at 10 W transmitted power provides suppression factors larger than ten orders of magnitude for S- and MgO- under AMS conditions with simultaneous beam transmission for the ions of interest of up to 80%. The excellent ion identification capabilities of the subsequent AMS system also facilitate the study of destruction and formation of molecular anions inside the ion cooler. These kinetic and chemical reactions with the buffer gas provide additional elemental selectivity in certain cases, whereas others constitute a source of background.

Organisation(en)

Isotopenphysik

Externe Organisation(en)

University of Gothenburg

Journal

Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research. Section B. Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms

Band

456

Seiten

213-217

Anzahl der Seiten

5

ISSN

0168-583X

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nimb.2019.04.039

Publikationsdatum

10-2019

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

103014 Kernphysik

Schlagwörter

Link zum Portal

https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/de/publications/the-iliams-project--an-rfq-ion-beam-cooler-for-selective-laser-photodetachment-at-vera(c8055cd4-5e81-4767-889f-0477de6c002c).html