A TIME-OF-FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETER ADAPTED FOR STUDYING CHARGE TRANSFER, ION DISSOCIATION, AND PHOTOIONIZATION,

Abstract

A time-of-flight mass spectrometer was modified so that (1) the drift tube can be used as a reaction/collision chamber for kinetic studies of charge transfer, ion dissociation, and similar processes; and (2) ions can be produced in the source by either pulsed or continuous electron or photon beams. Variable potential barriers, produced in the drift tube by means of movable screened retarder grid assemblies, permit parent ions and fragment ions to be separated, identified, and measured after reaction times that are selectively variable within a given range. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1963
Accession Number
AD0424087

Entities

People

  • G. Wassel
  • J. F. Betts
  • J. Saari
  • R. E. Huffman
  • W. W. Hunt Jr.

Organizations

  • Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Assembly
  • Charge Transfer
  • Charged Particles
  • Collisions
  • Dissociation
  • Electrons
  • Elementary Fermions
  • Elementary Particles
  • Fermions
  • Leptons
  • Mass Spectrometers
  • Photoionization
  • Photon Beams
  • Photons
  • Reaction Time
  • Spectrometers

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Molecular Photonics/Laser Physics

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics