21–25 May 2018
US/Eastern timezone

Off-line commissioning of the University of Notre Dame Multi-Reflection Time-of-Flight mass spectrometer

23 May 2018, 16:30
1h 30m

Speaker

Maxime Brodeur (Notre Dame)

Description

The production of exotic nuclei at the vicinity of the N = 126 peak of the rapid-neutron capture process as for a long time pose a challenge. A new facility currently under construction at Argonne National Laboratory aims at undertaking the challenge by producing these difficult nuclei via deep-inelastic reactions. The facility will first include a large-volume gas cell to collect and thermalize the reaction products. Then, upon extraction from the gas cell and radio-frequency ion guide, the ion beam will be separated by a high-resolution mass separator magnet and a multi-reflection time-of-flight mass spectrometer (MR-ToF) for the removal of isobaric contamination. This MR-ToF has been built and is being commissioned in an offline test setup at the University of Notre Dame. The commissioning results and off-line performance of the MR-ToF will be presented.

Primary author

Maxime Brodeur (Notre Dame)

Co-authors

Mr James Kelly (University of Notre Dame) Maier John (Notre Dame)

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