Undulator linear accelerator as a generator of ribbon high power ion beams

The characteristics of an undulator linear accelerator, based on the use of a plane electrostatic undulator (UNDULAC-E), is presented in this paper. It is shown that UNDULAC-E can be used as a high intensity ribbon ion beam source. The results of modeling of dynamics and construction are presented.     

Study on response of CR-39 detector to light ions

The response of CR-39 detector has been obtained precisely for protons, deuterons, tritons, alpha-particles and lithiumions with energies of a few MeV/nucleon. The track etch rates were determined from the growth curves of pit radius and summarized as the response functions. The accuracy of this method is high enough to discriminate among hydrogen isotopes under a certain condition. The correlation between the response and LET with various cut-off energies has also been examined. It was found that LET is not an unique parameter describing the response function adequately for different ions by the same expression.     

Sm3+ Potentiometric Membrane Sensor as a Probe for Determination of Some Pharmaceutics

The increase use of ion sensors in the fields of environmental, agricultural, and medical analysis is stimulating analytical chemists to develop new sensors for fast, accurate, reproducible, and selective determination of various ions. In this study a new samarium membrane sensor was constructed and for the first time, it was applied as a probe in indirect determination of hyoscine, homatropine, and tramadol drugs in their pharmaceutical formulation. The proposed membrane sensor was constructed based on a membrane containing 2% sodium tetraphenyl borate (NaTPB) as an anionic additive, 63% dibutyl phthalate (DBP) as solvent mediator, 5% ionophore, and 30% poly(vinyl chloride) (PVC). The proposed Sm(III) electrode exhibits a Nernstian response of 19.35±0.2 mV per decade of samarium concentration, and has a lower detection limit of 1.0×10^?7 M. The linear range of the sensors was 1.0×10^?7–1.0×10^?1 M. It works well in the pH range of 3.0–8.0.     

A new procedure, based on combustion to sulphate and ion chromatography for the analysis of elemental sulphur in sediments

Summary A procedure exploiting the bomb preparation method for the analysis of total sulphur in organic materials has been developed for the determination of zero-valent sulphur (S^o) in sediments. Sediment samples were dried over magnesium oxide and sonicated in the presence of toluene to extract S^o. Toluene solutions were directly oxidized by combustion in a bomb containing sodium carbonate-bicarbonate buffer, which trapped sulphur species generated from S^o as sulphate ions. These were in turn analysed by suppressed anion chromatography with ion-conductivity detection. The method was used to determine the distribution of S^o in saltmarsh sediment cores.     

Track Extensions of Categories and Cohomology

We introduce the notion of n-fold track extensions of a category C by a natural system D and prove that such extensions represent classes in the cohomology of C with coefficients in D introduced by Baues–Wirsching. This generalizes a result of Huebschmann on the cohomology of groups.     

State-specific reactions and autoionization dynamics of Ar produced by synchrotron radiation

The long-lived excited states of doubly charged rare gases can markedly affect their reactivity. In this paper we demonstrate the presence of strong state-specific effects in the charge exchange of Ar²⁺ (³P, ¹D and ¹S) with several neutral targets (He, Ne, Kr, Xe, D₂, and CH₄). State sensitive measurements have been performed by producing the different Ar²⁺ electronic states via tunable synchrotron radiation (Elettra-Trieste, Italy and SuperACO-Orsay, France). From the product ion yield data of charge transfer, state-selected total cross-sections have been deduced. Using the state-specific reactivity of Ar²⁺ towards different neutral targets, it has been possible to extract the photon-energy-dependent production branching of the three doubly charged states and to investigate the autoionization dynamics of neutral or singly charged Ar in the vicinity of the double ionization threshold.     

Observation of single Ca ions for trace isotope analysis

We developed an ion trap — laser cooling system for observing the laser induced fluorescence (LIF) of a single ion, in the view of utilizing it for the trace isotope analysis of Ca. We observed stepwise LIF signals, which correspond to the numbers of trapped ⁴⁰Ca⁺ ions (⁴⁰Ca/Ca = 96.9%). The detection efficiency was evaluated and the observation of single ions demonstrated the experimental feasibility of trace isotope analysis. Furthermore, as the next step towards trace isotope analysis, we report observation of the even calcium isotopes, ⁴⁴Ca (⁴⁴Ca/Ca = 2.09%) and ⁴⁸Ca (⁴⁸Ca/Ca = 0.187%), without the use of a selective loading method.     

How to avoid water contamination in the thermodesorption cryofocusing technique. Application to ethane analysis in human breath by means of an ion trap detector (ITD)

The purpose of this study was to modify an automatic pre-concentration system to avoid water contamination and to apply this technique to ethane analysis in breath. The ion trap detector was very useful in monitoring the whole analytical procedure.     

Designing polymers for nuclear track detection

This article describes our attempts since 1996 to systematically design and synthesize monomers and corresponding polymers for nuclear track detection. So far more than 15 homopolymers/copolymers have been prepared and tested by us for this purpose. Some of these polymers show better track detection characteristics vis-á-vis commercially available poly allyl diglycol carbonate (PADC) track detectors.      

Spatial structure and energy spectrum of ion beams studied with CN detectors within a small PF device

The paper reports the application of Solid-State Nuclear Track Detectors to study the pulsed plasma-ion streams emitted from plasma-focus (PF) type discharges, which were performed within a low-energy PACO device constructed at Instituto de Fisica Arroyo Seco. The PACO device was operated under static initial gas conditions or with dynamic gas puffing. Studies of the structure of the fast deuteron beams were carried out within an energy range from 80 keV to about 2 MeV. Studies of ion energy and an ion angular distribution were also performed. The measurements showed that the fast deuterons are emitted in many “narrow” micro-beams, as in other larger PF devices. The anisotropy of the deuteron angular distribution was explained by the stochastic character of the formation of local ion sources within the PF discharge column.