Cat's-eye reflectron

A new version of the non-magnet time-of-flight mass spectrometer reflectron is described. The method of operation, which allows to separate packets of ions with different masses both by their time-of-flight and by their deflection angle in the deflection system, the operation of which is synchronizes the arrival time of the ions with the focusing plane of this time-of-flight mass spectrometer is outlined.     

用于兰州彭宁离子阱的多反射飞行时间质量分析器的设计和优化

MRTOF-MS是最近几年发展起来的新型质谱仪,较传统的飞行时间质谱仪而言,MRTOF-MS质量分辨本领更高。开发了一种用于MRTOF-MS设计的新方法,该方法由参数设置部分和离子运动计算部分共同组成;分全局搜索和局部细化两个步骤,可用于优化MRTOF-MS的几何构型、计算不同条件下的最佳电压设置组合。基于这种方法,设计了一种机械结构与国际上同类设备不同的MRTOF-MS,该设备可用于高精度原子核质量测量,也可用于快速质量选择,为LPT提供纯净的目标核。通过优化,确定了其几何参数和电压参数,讨论了不同电极上的电压偏差对质量分辨本领的影响,定量地分析了电源的精度要求。优化结果表明:MRTOF-MS的最佳漂移长度约为400 mm;在最佳电压设置下,当40Ar1+的总飞行时间为6.5 ms时,其质量分辨本领可达1.3×105;要求电源精度好于50 ppm,最好达到20 ppm。Multi-reflection time-of-flight mass spectrometer (MRTOF-MS) has been developed as a new device which has a higher mass resolving power than traditional mass spectrometers in recent years. A new method including two sub-procedures, global search and local refinement, has been developed and applied to design a MRTOF-MS. It consists of two components, parameter configuration and ion motion simulation, and can be used to optimize the geometries of the spectrometer and the potentials applied on the electrodes to achieve the optimum in different conditions. By using this method, a different type of MRTOF mass analyzer has been designed for mass measurements and isobaric separation for Lanzhou Penning Trap (LPT). The geometry of this analyzer and potentials at different electrodes have been optimized, and the relations between resolving power and potentials and the power accuracy requirements have been analyzed and discussed quantitatively. The simulation shows that the optimal length of the drift-tube is about 400 mm; the maximal resolving power of 1.3×105 has been achieved with a total time-of-flight of 6.5 ms under the optimal potentials for an ion species of 40Ar1+; and the inaccuracy of the potentials applied to the mirror electrodes must be less than 50 ppm or preferably 20 ppm.     

A TIME-OF-FLIGHT SPECTROMETER FOR HEAVY IONS

A heavy-ion time-of-flight spectrometer has been constructed and operated successfully in our experiments. The trigger detector consists of a thin plastic scientillator foil located at the focus of a perabolic mirror which is coupled to a fast photomultiplier with high light collection efficiency. The time resolution obtained for the system is around 500ps. The mass resolution for A=12 elastically scattered ¹²C line is ~0.3.     

An application of the electron mirror in the time-of-flight spectrometer

We suggest applying of the spherical electron mirror in the time-of-flight electron spectrometer with a position sensitive detector in order to increase the effective acceptance solid angle of the spectrometer. The spherical electron mirror is placed near the specimen and it focuses electrons on a position sensitive detector as a converging electron flux. The electron mirror increases the acceptance angle of the spectrometer by a factor of 20. The electron mirror of the spectrometer consists of an inner spherical electrode of the radius R and an outer spherical electrode of the radius 1.1R. The central segment of the inner electrode inside the linear angle of 80° is made of a grid. The detector plate radius is about 0.23R. The acceptance solid angle of the spectrometer with this electron mirror is about 1.1sr, the range of the polar angle of emission is 20°–90° relative to the surface normal, and the range of the azimuth angle of emission at its maximum is ±36° relative to the basic plane of the spectrometer. The design of the spectrometer allows to recover the electron trajectory for each detected electron and to calculate the energy and the emission angle of the electron. The energy resolution of the spectrometer is about 0.2 eV/ns for the electron energy of 10 eV. The energy range is from E_min0.1eU_r up to eU_r, where U_r is the retarding potential of the electron mirror. The perturbing influence of the grid of the electron mirror limits mainly the angular resolution of the spectrometer and affects relatively slightly the energy resolution. The electron spectrometer with two detectors and two electron mirrors symmetric about the spectrometer axis allows to measure electron pairs in coincidence in a wide range of emission angles and energies with k-resolutions.     

Application of AFF and HPM to the systems of strongly nonlinear oscillation

This study is concerned with two well-known systems of nonlinear oscillators. One of them is a system consists of a mass grounded two springs which one of those springs is linear and the other is nonlinear, and the other one is dealt with nonlinear large amplitude free vibrations of a slender cantilever beam with a rotationally flexible root and carrying a lumped mass at an intermediate position along its span. The main objective was to obtain highly accurate analytical solutions for free vibration of conservative oscillators with inertia and static type cubic nonlinearities. Two methods are studied to analyze the dynamic system behavior. One method makes use of a set of Amplitude–Frequency Formulation (AFF) and the other method applies Homotopy Perturbation Method (HPM). Taking advantage of some simple mathematical operations on these methods, we can obtain their natural frequencies. The computed results agree with those analytical and numerical results given in the literatures. The results indicate that the present analysis is accurate, and provide us a unified and systematic procedure which is simple and more straightforward than the other similar methods.     

Reflectrons with ion orthogonal acceleration based on planar gridless mirrors

The feasibility of using structurally simple gridless electrostatic ion mirrors with a 2D field distribution in high-resolution time-of-flight (TOF) mass reflectrons is studied by numerical simulation. The configuration of a mirror with two control potentials providing third-order TOF focusing on energy and small TOF aberrations on spatial coordinates of the ion bunch is described.     

Approximate analytical solutions to a conservative oscillator using global residue harmonic balance method

In the current research paper, a conservative system comprising of a mass grounded by linear and nonlinear springs in series connection is studied. The equation of motion for the aforementioned system has been derived as a nonlinear ordinary differential equation with inertia and static–type cubic nonlinearities. The global residue harmonic balance method is applied to obtain an approximate analytical frequency and periodic solution of the problem. Using the obtained analytical expressions, the influences of the hardening and softening nonlinear spring on the non–dimensional frequency are investigated. The results show that developing the system nonlinearity leads the displacement of the mass and the deflection of linear spring to approach each other. Moreover, comparison of the results obtained using the proposed procedure with those achieved by other methods such as numerical method, variational iteration method and harmonic balance approach demonstrates the accuracy and advantages of the current approach.     

The Electric Dipole Moment of the B(1)Pi State of ZrO

A laser ablation source combined with a time-of-flight mass spectrometer has been constructed. The static electric field in the mass spectrometer gives rise to a first-order Stark effect splitting from which the permanent electric dipole moment of the B(1)Pi state (v = 0) of (90)ZrO is determined and found to be 3.43 +/- 0.07 D. The X(1)Sigma and B(1)Pi states are further investigated and comparisons with the results from ab initio calculations are made. Copyright 2000 Academic Press.     

Time-of-flight mass spectrometer coupled to a position sensitive detection

In this article we present the first results that we have obtained with a time-of-flight mass spectrometer coupled to a position sensitive detector. This new spectrometer provides a three-dimensional imaging (X and Y positions and time-of-flight) of the ion packet on the detector, with a high acquisition rate and a high resolution on both the mass and the position. This new apparatus is used to measure the electric deflection of PABA (p-amino benzoic acid) and PABA dimer beams and to study the kinetic energy release of the photofragmentation of the PABA dimer.     

Horizontal-Longitudinal Spatial Correlation of Acoustic Field with Deep Receiver in the Direct Zone in Deep Water

The horizontal-longitudinal correlation of acoustic field for the receiver near the bottom is analyzed by using numerical modeling. An approximate analytical solution of horizontal-longitudinal correlation coefficient is derived based on the ray method. Combining the characteristic of Lloyd's mirror interference pattern, the variability of acoustic field and its effect on horizontal-longitudinal spatial correlation are discussed. The theoretical prediction agrees well with the numerical results. Experimental results confirm the validity of analytical solution.Finally, the applicability of the analytical solution is summarized. The conclusion is beneficial for the design of bottom-moored array and the estimation of integral time for moving source localization.     

Interferometric characterization of ultrashort deep ultraviolet pulses using a multiphoton ionization mass spectrometer

The temporal characterization of a femtosecond laser pulse in the deep ultraviolet region using an interferometric autocorrelation scheme is demonstrated. Two-photon ionization of a molecule in a time-of-flight mass spectrometer was used as a nonlinear detector to obtain an autocorrelation trace. This setup proved useful in not only providing a temporal characterization of a pulse but also investigating the ultrafast dynamics of photochemical processes.     

Novel Experimental Method in the Study of Double Rydberg States by Laser Resonance Excitation

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离子光学系统简单数值计算方法在反射式飞行时间质谱仪中的应用

简要阐述了求解离子光学系统电场结构分布以及带电粒子在该电场中运行轨迹的通用数值计算方法,分析了在保证计算精度的前提下,节省磁盘空间、提高计算速度的PC级计算机上优化算法,并提出一种寻找最佳超松弛因子的可行性方法.在PC级计算机上应用该计算方法对一台无栅网结构高分辨率反射式飞行时间质谱仪进行计算,给出了电场分布、粒子飞行轨迹和设定各种不同条件对电场进行优化的结果.根据计算结果调整的反射式飞行时间质谱仪达到了其优化工作状态,所测得的质谱分辨率显著提高.     

飞行时间质谱峰值的漂移

飞行时间质谱仪(time-of-flight mass spectrometer, TOF-MS)在分子团簇的激光电离/解离动力学研究中广泛使用。文章报道了在用脉冲355 nm的YAG激光进行水/甲醇二元团簇的多光子电离研究中,发现在电离激光相对于脉冲分子束的不同延时下,即激光作用于脉冲束的不同位置,飞行时间质谱仪测得的离子的质谱峰值发生漂移。在激光作用于脉冲束的中段时,离子的信号最强,同时离子的峰值漂移达到最大。分析认为：这种峰值漂移不是因为新质量数谱峰的出现,而是离子在穿越质谱仪的离子引出区和加速区极板时发生部分离子吸附,引起极板间电压的起伏造成的。离子在电场起伏下的数值模拟与实验中观测到的离子峰值漂移规律一致。     

High-power coaxial microwave ubitron: Simulation by the particle-in-cell method

Results of complete numerical simulation of a high-power coaxial microwave ubitron are reported. The simulation uses a 2.5-dimensional numerical electromagnetic code based on the particle-in-cell method and is performed for the amplification and oscillation operating modes. The results of our numerical simulation are compared with analytical results and results following from the nonlinear theory that are obtained by partial computer simulation.     

Creating, detecting and locating ultracold molecules in a surface trap

Ultracold molecules have been produced by photoassociation of Cs atoms trapped in a mirror magneto-optical trap. The molecules were detected by resonantly enhanced multi-photon ionization followed by time-of-flight mass spectroscopy. The time-of-flight ofatomic and molecular ions was investigated in the presence of a dc bias voltageapplied to the conducting mirror. This technique provides a new tool for determining the distance between the cold molecules and the mirror surface. This revised version was published online in August 2005 with a corrected cover date.     

冲击脉冲辐射天线辐射场计算及应用

根据由张量法得到的任意线天线电场计算公式,利用镜像法推导,得到冲击脉冲辐射天线辐射电场的时域解析表达式。应用该表达式计算冲击脉冲辐射天线应用于辐射波电磁脉冲模拟器的时域辐射场,并与数值计算进行比较,结果表明:解析计算得到的辐射场波形与数值计算结果吻合较好,因此,利用解析表达式可以方便地观察天线结构参数对天线辐射场波形的影响,从而选取合适的参数以产生符合标准要求的天线场波形。     

冲击脉冲辐射天线辐射场计算及应用

根据由张量法得到的任意线天线电场计算公式,利用镜像法推导,得到冲击脉冲辐射天线辐射电场的时域解析表达式。应用该表达式计算冲击脉冲辐射天线应用于辐射波电磁脉冲模拟器的时域辐射场,并与数值计算进行比较,结果表明：解析计算得到的辐射场波形与数值计算结果吻合较好,因此,利用解析表达式可以方便地观察天线结构参数对天线辐射场波形的影响,从而选取合适的参数以产生符合标准要求的天线场波形。     

Nonlinear fluctuation,frequency and stability analyses in free vibration of circular sector oscillation systems

In the present paper, the modified homotopy perturbation method (MHPM) is employed to investigate about both nonlinear swinging oscillation and the stability of circular sector oscillation systems. The sensitivity study performed for frequency analysis of the mentioned oscillatory circular sector body shows that frequency of nonlinear oscillation depends on some specific parameters and can be optimized. Furthermore onset of the instability is dependent to angle α and initial amplitude.Comparisons made among the results of the present closed-form analytical solution and the traditional numerical iterative time integration solution confirms the accuracy and efficiency of the presented analytical solution.In contrast to the available numerical methods, the present analytical method is free from the numerical damping and the time integration accumulated errors. Moreover, in comparison with the traditional multistep numerical iterative time integration methods, a much less computational time is required for the present analytical method. Responses of the dynamical systems to some extent are affected by the natural frequencies. Results reveal that for nonlinear systems, the natural frequency is remarkably affected by the initial conditions.     

Analytical Solutions for the Two-Dimensional Gross-Pitaevskii Equation with a Harmonic Trap

Both the homotopy analysis method and Galerkin spectral method are applied to find the analytical solutions of the two-dimensional and time-independent Gross-Pitaevskii equation,a nonlinear Schrdinger equation used in describing the system of Bose-Einstein condensates trapped in a harmonic potential.The approximate analytical solutions are obtained successfully.Comparisons between the analytical solutions and the numerical solutions have been made.The results indicate that they are agreement very well with each other when the atomic interaction is not too strong.