Method of determination of the mass composition of ring current ions
Abstract
A method for individual registration of protons, and helium and oxygen ions, with energies E for a charge on the order of 100 kev/q in the ring currents of the Earth's magnetosphere was examined. The method is based on the various specific losses in energy by these ions in matter. The ion current, selected according to E/q, is passed through a solid target, after which identification of the masses is carried out, based on the energy losses in the possibly to reliably divide the flows of protons, and helium and oxygen ions.
- Publication:
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Method of determination of the mass composition of ring current ions Transl. into ENGLISH of ""Metod opredeleniya massovogo sostava ionov koltsevogo toka'' Rept. Pr-414 Moscow
- Pub Date:
- August 1980
- Bibcode:
- 1980mdmc.rept.....T
- Keywords:
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- Earth Magnetosphere;
- Energy Dissipation;
- Helium Ions;
- Ion Currents;
- Mass Distribution;
- Oxygen Ions;
- Protons;
- Ring Currents;
- Atmospheric Electricity;
- Electrojets;
- Mass Spectrometers;
- Microanalysis;
- Solions;
- Geophysics