arXiv · 1412.1144
An RF-only ion-funnel for extraction from high-pressure gases
Abstract
An RF ion-funnel technique has been developed to extract ions from a high-pressure (10 bar) noble-gas environment into vacuum ($10^{-6}$ mbar). Detailed simulations have been performed and a prototype has been developed for the purpose of extracting $^{136}$Ba ions from Xe gas with high efficiency. With this prototype, ions have been extracted for the first time from high-pressure xenon gas and argon gas. Systematic studies have been carried out and compared to the simulations. This demonstration of extraction of ions with mass comparable to that of the gas generating the high-pressure into vacuum has applications to Ba tagging from a Xe-gas time-projection chamber (TPC) for double beta decay as well as to the general problem of recovering trace amounts of an ionized element in a heavy (m$>40$ u) carrier gas.
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Thomas Brunner, Daniel Fudenberg, Victor Varentsov, Amanda Sabourov, Giorgio Gratta, Jens Dilling, Ralph DeVoe, David Sinclair, William Fairbank Jr., Joshua B Albert, David J Auty, Phil S Barbeau, Douglas Beck, Cesar Benitez-Medina, Martin Breidenbach, Guofu F Cao, Christopher Chambers, Bruce Cleveland, Matthew Coon, Adam Craycraft, Timothy Daniels, Sean J Daugherty, Tamar Didberidze, Michelle J Dolinski, Matthew Dunford, Lorenzo Fabris, Jacques Farine, Wolfhart Feldmeier, Peter Fierlinger, Razvan Gornea, Kevin Graham, Mike Heffner, Mitchell Hughes, Michael Jewell, Xiaoshan S Jiang, Tessa N Johnson, Sereres Johnston, Alexander Karelin, Lisa J Kaufman, Ryan Killick, Thomas Koffas, Scott Kravitz, Reiner Kruecken, Alexey Kuchenkov, Krishna S Kumar, Douglas S Leonard, Francois Leonard, Caio Licciardi, Yi-Hsuan H Lin, Jiajie Ling, Ryan MacLellan, Michael G Marino, Brian Mong, David Moore, Allen Odian, Igor Ostrovskiy, Christian Ouellet, Andreas Piepke, Andrea Pocar, Fabrice Retiere, Peter C Rowson, Maria P Rozo, Alexis Schubert, Erica Smith, Victor Stekhanov, Michal Tarka, Tamer Tolba, Delia Tosi, Karl Twelker, Jean-Luc L Vuilleumier, Josiah Walton, Timothy Walton, Manuel Weber, Liangjian J Wen, Ubi Wichoski, Liang Yang, Yung-Ruey Yen. 2014-12-03. An RF-only ion-funnel for extraction from high-pressure gases. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijms.2015.01.003
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