Speaker
Description
The accurate mass spectrometry (with resolution goal 1:20000) of exotic ions requests beams with low energy spread (goal is about 0.5 eVrms or lower) and low tranverse emittance; so it is necessary to cool ions produced by a spallation source of a factor from 5 to 10. In a radiofrequency (rf) quadrupole cooler (RFQC), collisions decrease ion kinetic energy, while rf and bias voltages confine and reaccelerate ions towards the extraction, where the cold ion beam is formed. Operation is based on carefully chosen voltage tunings, and among others: the dependence on ion species and gas pressure, which requests an adequate pumping system; the difficult design of an efficient ion extraction, which critically depends on residual ion speed. Progresses in the experimental setup are described. Indications from simple ion tracing, ion+collision tracing and some limited Monte Carlo simulations are compared. Results are applied to the comparison of triode and tetrode design of the extraction system.
| E-mail for contact person | cavenago@lnl.infn.it |
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| Funding Information | INFN-CSN5 (experiment Ion2neutral) |
