The buffer gas cooling process and the properties of the cooled beam in a novel rf quadrupole ion beam guide with axial field was studied. The operation principle of the axial field quadrupole ion beam guide is similar to the quadrupole mass filter operating in AC only mode but the rods were segmented and differential DC biases were applied to produce the axial field. It was operated in buffer gas. / A Monte Carlo simulation was developed and the simulation results were compared with the experimental results. The beam distribution in a thermal equilibrium was assumed as the thermal equilibrium distribution in a simple harmonic motion with rf distortion and the assumption was confirmed by the Monte Carlo simulation. / The temperature of the cooled beam was measured with a beam profile, measurement system which consists of a miniature quadrupole ion beam guide aid a rotating semi-circular Faraday plate. The temperature of the cooled beam was measured to be 0.0424 +/- 0.0026 eV in the experiment while that of the simulated beam was 0.0372 +/- 0.0009 eV. The variation of beam temperature with beam current was 0.0153 +/- 0.0026 eV/nA. The maximum achieved ion transmission was 80%. The transmitted ion beam's energy spread was measured with a retarding potential energy analyzer to be less than 0.1 eV. The cooling time was 0.7 ms with 1V/ cm axial field and was observed to be very dependent on the ion current when there was no axial field.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.35666 |
| Date | January 1997 |
| Creators | Kim, Taeman. |
| Contributors | Moore, R. B. (advisor) |
| 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 | Doctor of Philosophy (Department of Physics.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 001656553, proquestno: NQ44656, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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