A fast-beam collinear laser spectroscopy apparatus has been designed and tested with the $ sp{23}$Na D$ sb2$ line (wavelength = 589 nm) on continuous atomic beams. / A radio-frequency quadrupole ion trap and its associated electronics have been assembled and successfully operated, trapping $ sp{23}$Na$ sp{+}$ ions from an external source built for the purposes of this work. The bunched ions were extracted and detected; the effect of several injection, bunching and extraction parameters on the extracted bunches' size were studied. A simple model of the ion bunching and losses in the trap is proposed. / From the sensitivity limit of the collinear laser spectroscopy apparatus and the maximum bunched current output from the trap, the possibility of performing fast-beam collinear laser spectroscopy measurements on bunched atomic beams is examined.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.59579 |
| Date | January 1989 |
| Creators | Nantel, Marc |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Science (Department of Physics.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 001067860, proquestno: AAIMM63736, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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