A data analysis method for isochronous mass spectrometry using two time-of-flight detectors at CSRe

The concept of isochronous mass spectrometry(IMS) applying two time-of-flight(TOF) detectors originated many years ago at GSI. However, the corresponding method for data analysis has never been discussed in detail. Recently, two TOF detectors have been installed at CSRe and the new working mode of the ring is under test. In this paper, a data analysis method for this mode is introduced and tested with a series of simulations. The results show that the new IMS method can significantly improve mass resolving power via the additional velocity information of stored ions. This improvement is especially important for nuclides with Lorentz factor γ-value far away from the transition point γt of the storage ring CSRe.     

A Movable Mass Spectroscopy Sampling Apparatus for Measuring Spatial Distribution of Neutral Radicals in Silane Plasma

A movable mass spectroscopy gas sampling apparatus has been established and a straight-line fit of silane depletion fraction f is proposed. The spatial density distributions of SiHn (n=0-3) radicals in silane radio frequency glow discharge have been measured by a mass spectrometer. The experimental results demonstrate that the densities of the neutral radicals have the peak value near the middle position of electrodes, and the densities of SiH2 and SiH3 are higher than those of Si and SiH in silane plasma. This reveals that SiH2 and SiH3 may be the primary precursors in forming the a-Si:H film.     

Simulation of the Lanzhou Penning Trap LPT

The LPT (Lanzhou Penning Trap) is under construction and its task is to perform direct mass measurement of fusion-evaporation residues and if possible for heavy isotopes. Detailed simulations have been done for a good understanding to the ion’s movement and mechanics in the trap. The optimization of the LPT is also performed based on the simulation. With a scale of 0.5 mm per grid used in the simulation and many other limitations a highest mass resolution has been achieved to be 1.9×10-5. An unexpected behaviour in the simulation related to magnetron motion has been found.     

Optimal design of a 7 T highly homogeneous superconducting magnet for a Penning trap

A Penning trap system called Lanzhou Penning Trap（LPT） is now being developed for precise mass measurements at the Institute of Modern Physics（IMP）.One of the key components is a 7 T actively shielded superconducting magnet with a clear warm bore of 156 mm.The required field homogeneity is 3 × 10-7 over two 1 cubic centimeter volumes lying 220 mm apart along the magnet axis.We introduce a two-step method which combines linear programming and a nonlinear optimization algorithm for designing the multi-section superconducting magnet.This method is fast and flexible for handling arbitrary shaped homogeneous volumes and coils.With the help of this method an optimal design for the LPT superconducting magnet has been obtained.     

Simulation of the Lanzhou Penning Trap LPT

The LPT (Lanzhou Penning Trap) is under construction and its task is to perform direct mass measurement of fusion-evaporation residues and if possible for heavy isotopes. Detailed simulations have been done for a good understanding to the ion's movement and mechanics in the trap. The optimization of the LPT is also performed based on the simulation. With a scale of 0.5 mm per grid used in the simulation and many other limitations a highest mass resolution has been achieved to be 1.9×10^－5. An unexpected behaviour in the simulation related to magnetron motion has been found.     

兰州彭宁阱核心电极的最优电压幅值计算

彭宁阱是用于直接测量原子核质量的精确设备。为了保证彭宁阱的测量精度,需在阱中心产生精准的四极静电场,而四极静电场是通过对彭宁阱的核心电极施加合适的电压产生的。采用公式推导法和最小二乘法两种方法计算得到了LPT核心电极需加电压幅值。对于公式推导法,电压值完全从理论出发,经公式推导后计算得到;最小二乘法的出发点是使取样偏差的平方和最小,且通过仿真模拟考虑了电极的实际几何形状。由这两种方法得到的非四极项系数C4 和C6,可用于估算因偏离理想四极电场所产生的实验误差。虽然这两种方法的出发点不同,但都可以在阱中心产生需要的四极电场。Penning trap mass spectrometry is one of the direct methods and maybe the most accurate tool for atomic mass measurements. The quadrupole electric eld produced in the trap should be very accurate in order to ensure the precision of measurements. The optimal amplitudes for the key electrodes of the Lanzhou Penning Trap(LPT) have been calculated by two methods|formula derivation and least-squares tting. For formula derivation method, the optimal values are based on the theory and deduced from the formulas. Least-squares tting method is to minimize the quadratic sum of sampling deviations, where the actual geometry of the electrodes has been considered by the simulation. The obtained C4 and C6 values can be used to estimate the experimental error produced by the deviation from the ideal quadrupole electric eld. The expected quadrupole electric led could be gotten by both methods.     

An improved method of unfolding neutron TOF spectrum for low ion temperature inertial confinement fusion

The fuel ion temperature in inertial confinement fusion can be determined from the neutron energy spectrum. For the implosion experiment with low neutron yield, and thus low signal-to-noise ratio, a new technique to unfold the neutron energy spectrum from the observed neutron time-of-flight signal is presented in this paper. This method uses a low-pass filter to remove noise from the signal with a threshold value determined by power spectrum analysis. This technique has been applied to the analysis of the observed neutron time-of-flight signals in the indirect drive implosion experiment conducted on Shenguang Ⅲ prototype laser facility, and fuel ion temperatures of about 1.0 keV are obtained.     

An improved method of unfolding neutron TOF spectrum for low ion temperature inertial confinement fusion

The fuel ion temperature in inertial confinement fusion can be determined from the neutron energy spectrum. For the implosion experiment with low neutron yield, and thus low signal-to-noise ratio, a new technique to unfold the neutron energy spectrum from the observed neutron time-of-flight signal is presented in this paper. This method uses a low-pass filter to remove noise from the signal with a threshold value determined by power spectrum analysis. This technique has been applied to the analysis of the observed neutron time-of-flight signals in the indirect drive implosion experiment conducted on Shenguang III prototype laser facility, and fuel ion temperatures of about 1.0 keV are obtained.     

PSPICE controlled-source models of analogous circuit for Langevin type piezoelectric transducer

The design and construction of wide-band and high efficiency acoustical projector has long been considered an art beyond the capabilities of many smaller groups. Langevin type piezoelectric transducers have been the most candidate of sonar array system applied in underwater communication. The transducers are fabricated, by bolting head mass and tail mass on both ends of stacked piezoelectric ceramic, to satisfy the multiple, conflicting design for high power transmitting capability. The aim of this research is to study the characteristics of Langevin type piezoelectric transducer that depend on different metal loading. First, the Mason equivalent circuit is used to model the segmented piezoelectric ceramic, then, the impedance network of tail and head masses is deduced by the Newton's theory. To obtain the optimal solution to a specific design formulation, PSPICE controlled-source programming techniques can be applied. A valid example of the application of PSPICE models for Langevin type transducer analysis is presented and the simulation results are in good agreement with the experimental measurements.     

Electric ignition energy evaluation and the energy distribution structure of energy released in electrostatic discharge process

Ignition energy is one of the important parameters of flammable materials, and evaluating ignition energy precisely is essential to the safety of process industry and combustion science and technology. By using electric spark discharge test system, a series of electric spark discharge experiments were conducted with the capacitor-stored energy in the range of 10 J, 100 J, and 1000 J, respectively. The evaluation method for energy consumed by electric spark, wire, and switch during capacitor discharge process has been studied respectively. The resistance of wire, switch, and plasma between electrodes has been evaluated by different methods and an optimized evaluation method has been obtained. The electric energy consumed by wire, electric switch, and electric spark-induced plasma between electrodes were obtained and the energy structure of capacitor-released energy was analyzed. The dynamic process and the characteristic parameters(the maximum power, duration of discharge process) of electric spark discharge process have been analyzed. Experimental results showed that, electric spark-consumed energy only accounts for 8%–14% of the capacitor-released energy. With the increase of capacitor-released energy, the duration of discharge process becomes longer, and the energy of plasma accounts for more in the capacitor-released energy. The power of electric spark varies with time as a damped sinusoids function and the period and the maximum value increase with the capacitor-released energy.     

HIAF-SRing的等时性模式光学设计

高精度环形谱仪SRing作为HIAF装置的核心之一,是获取高品质放射性次级束,并将束流用于加速器技术研究、原子物理及核物理实验的关键设备。SRing有三种运行模式:等时性模式、正常模式与内靶模式。等时性模式下,SRing运行在特殊线性光学设置下,可以精确测量寿命低至几十微秒的原子核的质量。介绍SRing等时性模式的线性光学及高阶项校正的设计方案。在使用程序GICOSY进行等时性高阶项校正数值计算后,将得到的光学传输矩阵输入到程序MOCADI进行粒子跟踪模拟。以γ_t=1.43的等时性模式为例,SRing的动量接收度为±0.20%,粒子跟踪结果显示,在仅满足一阶等时性条件时SRing的质量分辨能力R=1.6×104。在保证动量接收度不变的前提下,考虑了等时性高阶项校正后SRing的质量分辨能力提高到R=1.2×106,达到设计要求。The Spectrometer Ring, as the most important experiment terminal of the High Intensity heavy-ion Accelerator Facility (HIAF) project, is a key device to obtain high-quality radioactive ion beams (RIBs) for atomic physics, nuclear physics experiments and accelerator technology researches. Three operation modes including the isochronous mode, the normal mode and the internal target mode, have been designed for the SRing. In the isochronous mode, the SRing operates under a special ion optics and could be used for precision mass measurement of short-lived nuclei with half-life shorter than several tens of microseconds. This study aims to design the ion optics for the isochronous mode and improve the mass resolving power of the SRing with higher-order ion-optical correction scheme for isochronism while preserve a large momentum acceptance of SRing. The ion optics and the higher-order correction for the isochronous mode are calculated with the code MAD-X and GICOSY respectively. Three ion optics with γ_t=1.43, 1.67, 1.83 settings have been calculated. The code MCOADI which utilizes the matrixes generated by the code GICOSY is used for particles tracking to verify the correction results. For the ion-optical setting of γ_t=1.43 with a momentum acceptance of ±0.20%, the mass resolving power of the SRing could be improved from R=1.6×104 to R=1.2×106, after isochronous higher-order corrections.     

全剥离离子94mRu44+的衰变研究

在兰州重离子加速器冷却储存环（HIRFL-CSR）上,用等时性质量谱仪首次研究了百微秒量级全剥离离子94mRu44+的衰变。94mRu44+由初级束流112Sn轰击Be靶产生,经过放射性束流线RIBLL2的筛选后注入到等时性设置的实验环CSRe中,并利用安装在实验环中的飞行时间探测器测量离子在CSRe中的循环周期。94mRu44+退激引起的质量改变会带来其循环周期的变化,由此直接观测到了94mRu44+退激到基态的过程。确定了本次实验中衰变事例探测的灵敏区间,并讨论了衰变发生时刻的测量精度。同时,测量了短寿命核素94mRu44+的质量,其半衰期约为100 μs,这是目前储存环质量谱仪测量的最短寿命核素的质量。The decay of the fully stripped ion 94mRu44+ in the order of one hundred microseconds has been studied for the first time by using the Isochronous Mass Spectrometry (IMS) at the HIRFL-CSR facility in Lanzhou. 94mRu44+ was produced via projectile fragmentation of a 112Sn primary beam bombarding on a 9Be production target. After the in-flight separation with RIBLL2, the ions were injected into the experimental ring (CSRe) and then stored there. The revolution times of the stored ions were measured by a Time-of-Flight (TOF) detector. Due to the mass change of a 94mRu44+ ion caused by its de-excitation to the ground state, hence the revolution time change, the decay process of 94mRu44+ could be directly observed in the CSRe. The sensitive window for detection of the decay events and the measurement precision of the decay time have been determined in this work. At the same time, we measured the mass of short-lived 94mRu44+ with the half-life about one hundred microseconds, which is the shortest among nuclides that have been studied by using storage-ring mass-spectrometry.     

NEW AUTOIONIZING STATES NEAR THE FIRST IONIZATION LIMIT OF RARE EARTH ELEMENT Dy

This paper describes the investigation of autoionizing states near the first ionization limit of rare-earth element Dy. The 62, 51, 97 and 25 new autoionizing states resulting from the states of 4f¹⁰(⁵I₈)6s6p(³P⁰₂)³I⁰₇, 4f⁹ (⁶H⁰)5d²(³F)(⁸G⁰)6s⁹G⁰₇, 4f⁹(⁶F⁰)5d6s^{2 7}H⁰₇ and 4f⁹5d6s^{2 7}K⁰₇, respectively, were found by using a laser resonance ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometer (LRI-TOFMS), The photoionization efficiencies for different channels were compared with each other. In addition, the Shore-Fano parameters of autoionizing states were determined by a nonlinear fitting program.     

Improved cylindrical mirror energy analyzer

A study has been carried out of the electron-optical properties of improved design of the cylindrical mirror energy analyzer. Both external and internal electrodes of the analyzer are divided into three isolated parts, whereby the potentials on the individual parts can be regulated independently from each other. In symmetric operating mode at identical potentials on the side parts of the electrodes, a significant increase has been obtained in resolving power and light-gathering power of the analyzer compared to the standard design of the cylindrical mirror. In asymmetric operating mode, which is implemented in a linear potential distribution on the external electrode, the conditions have been found under which the linear dispersion of the analyzer increases several times.

     

氟利昂F113分子在飞秒激光作用下的多光子电离解离动力学

大气臭氧层因吸收太阳紫外光, 是人类必不可少的保护伞. 氟利昂在太阳光辐射下解离生成破坏臭氧的游离态氯原子, 是破坏大气臭氧层的主要元凶之一. 本文利用飞行时间质谱技术和离子速度成像技术研究了氟利昂F113(三氟三氯乙烷)分子在800 nm 飞秒光作用下的多光子电离解离动力学. 利用飞行时间质谱探测技术, 得到了三氟三氯乙烷在该波长飞秒激光作用下发生多光子电离解离产生的碎片质谱. 通过荷质比对碎片质谱进行了详细的标定和分析. 在质谱上未发现母体离子, 所有观察到的离子都是由于激光脉冲作用下产生的碎片. 三个最主要的碎片离子是CFCl₂⁺, CF₂Cl⁺, C₂F₃Cl₂⁺. 通过飞行时间质谱标定, 发现并归属了多个解离通道. 三个主要的解离机理分别为: 1) C-Cl键断裂直接生产氯自由基的通道C₂F₃Cl₃⁺→C₂F₃Cl₂⁺+Cl; 2) C--C键断裂C₂F₃Cl₃⁺→CFCl₂⁺+CF₂Cl; 3) C--C键断裂C₂F₃Cl₃⁺→CF₂Cl⁺+CFCl₂. 利用离子速度成像技术对这三个主要通道产生的碎片离子进行成像, 得到了C₂F₃Cl₂⁺, CFCl₂⁺和CF₂Cl⁺离子的速度影像. 由C--Cl键断裂产生的碎片离子C₂F₃Cl₂^{+}的速度分布由两个高斯分布曲线拟合, 而由C--C键断裂产生的碎片离子CFCl₂⁺和CF₂Cl⁺可以用一个高斯曲线拟合. 通过影像分析得到了解离碎片的平动能分布和角向分布各向异性参数等详尽的动力学信息. 结合高精度密度泛函理论计算对解离动力学进行了进一步的分析和讨论.深入认识氟利昂的解离动力学可为进一步控制破坏臭氧层提供理论参考和实验依据.     

Glueballs and Instantons in Lattice SU(2) Gauge Theory

The SU(2) glueball masses and the gluonic correlation functions in the J^P = 0⁺,2⁺ and 0^- channels are calculated from the cooled and uncooled gauge configurations. The improved action and the anisotropic lattice are used in this work. The instanton-induced attractive force in the 0⁺ channel and the repulsive force in the 0^- channel are confirmed by the Monte Carlo simulation. There is evidence that the instanton vacuum contribution to the 0⁺ glueball mass is significant.     

Strangeness production in proton collisions close to threshold at COSY-TOF

The K-meson production in elementary proton induced reactions is studied exclusively at the external COSY beam using the time-of-flight spectrometer TOF. The complete measurement of all primary and decay particle tracks allows the extraction of total and differential cross sections as well as Dalitz plots and invariant mass spectra of the subsystems for the channels pp → K⁺ Δp, K⁰Σ⁺p, K⁺Σ⁰p and K⁺Σ⁺n. For all channels the full phase space is covered from the reaction threshold up to the COSY-limit of about 3.5 GeV/c. Especially the analysis of the Dalitz plots of the channel pp→K⁺Δp show a strong influence of N₋^* resonances.     

缺中子核素101In低位同核异能态的首次观测

在兰州重离子加速器冷却储存环（HIRFL-CSR）上,用初级束流112Sn35+轰击了靶厚约10 mm的Be靶,产生了101In的基态和低位同核异能态。这些实验产生的碎片每25 s经过放射性束流线RIBLL2的筛选后注入到实验环CSRe中,利用飞行时间探测器测量离子在CSRe中的回旋周期。在此次实验中,磁场晃动会导致离子在环内的循环周期发生改变,传统的离子鉴别方法难以完成大部分离子的鉴别。通过发展和运用单次注入离子鉴别这一新的离子鉴别方法,有效地消除了磁场晃动对于离子鉴别的影响,并清楚地将101In基态和低位同核异能态鉴别出来,从而首次在实验中观测到101In的低位同核异能态。实验得到的激发能与理论外推值在112 keV的误差范围内一致,其低位同核异能态的寿命大于200 μs。Isochronous mass spectrometry has been applied to 112Sn projectile fragments at the HIRFL-CSR facility in Lanzhou. To produce short-lived nuclei of interest, we used projectile fragmentation of 112Sn35+ primary beams in a~10 mm thick 9Be production target. The fragments were selected and analyzed by RIBLL2 and injected into the experimental storage ring(CSRe) every 25 s. To measure revolution times of stored ions,we used a Time-Of-Flight detector installed in CSRe. A new particle identification method was developed to distinguish ions on the measured revolution time spectrum for each injection. Based on this method, the shifts of the revolution time due to instable dipole magnet fields can be corrected and the ground and isomeric states of 101In have been well-resolved. The measured excitation energy is consistent with the theoretical value in the error range of 112 keV. The lifetime of the isomeric states of 101In is more than 200 μs.     

Secondary ion mass spectrometer based on a high-dose ion implanter

A secondary ion mass spectrometer built around a modified high-dose ion implanter is used to study secondary ion emission in metals over a wide range of primary beam energies. The implanter generates ion beams with energies of up to 150 keV and a substrate current to 30 μA. A modified MX7304A monopole mass spectrometer is applied as an analyzer of secondary ions with mass numbers of up to 400 with a resolution of 1 M at a level of 10% of the peak height. The detection limit for iron is 6.5 ppm. The analyzer is equipped with a small-size filter separating secondary ions in energy. The relative emission intensities of the secondary monatomic and cluster ions of copper for different primary ion beam parameters are studied.     

Ultrahigh resolution mass spectrometry and accurate mass measurements for high-throughput food lipids profiling

In the present study, accurate mass measurements by ultrahigh resolution mass spectrometry with Orbitrap-Exactive working at resolving power R: 100,000 (m/z 200, full width at half maximum) with an accuracy better than 2?ppm in all the mass range (m/z 200 to 2000) were used to show a detailed molecular composition of diverse edible oils and fats. Flow injection was used to introduce samples into the mass spectrometer, obtaining a complete analysis of each sample in less than 10 min, including blanks. Meticulous choice of organic solvents and optimization of the ion source and Orbitrap mass analyzer parameters were carried out, in order to achieve reproducible mass spectra giving reliable elemental compositions of the lipid samples and to prevent carry over. More than 200 elemental compositions attributable to diacylglycerols, triacylglycerols (TAGs), and their oxidation products have been found in the spectra of food lipids from different origin. Several compounds with very close molecular mass could only be resolved through ultrahigh resolution, allowing detailed and robust TAG profiling with a high characterization potential. Copyright ? 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.