Development of an isochronous time-of-flight mass spectrometer for determination of space plasma parameters.
Abstract
For plasma composition measurements in space, the usual magnet spectrometers are increasingly replaced by time-of-flight (TOF) instruments. The authors have developed a prototype for a cylindrical, high-resolution (M/ΔM > 50) isochronous TOF-mass spectrometer, to be used in combination with an electrostatic energy-analyzer. They present numerical simulations and first experimental results.
- Publication:
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Helvetica Physica Acta
- Pub Date:
- July 1993
- Bibcode:
- 1993AcHPh..66..429G