Production, transport and charge capture measurements of highly charged recoil ions /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Trebus, Ulrich Ernst, 1950-
Other Authors: Bevan, John W. (degree committee member.), Ford, Albert L. (degree committee member.), Fry, Edward S. (degree committee member.)
Format: Thesis Book
Language:English
Published: 1989.
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Online Access:Link to OAKTrust copy
Description
Abstract:An experiment is described to study highly charged recoil ions on-line to the heavy ion accelerator UNILAC at GSI. The highly charged recoil ions are produced by heavy ion bombardment of a gas target. Subsequently the slow highly charged recoil ions are extracted from the ionization volume, and guided through a beam transport line to a Wien filter for charge state selection and to a collision region to study charge transfer processes. Several experiments were carried out to show the efficient charge state separation. Charge states up to q=15 were observed. When using a retarding field analyzer cross sections for single electron capture were determined for different charge states of Xe (subscript q+) for q=4 to 11 and He gas. The experiments demonstrated increasing charge transfer cross sections with increasing charge state q and indicated the effect of near resonant charge capture for q=6. The flexible data acquisition system used, is described and other future experiments, such as for instance in flight ion-trapping are indicated in the appendix.
Item Description:Typescript (photocopy).
Vita.
"Major subject: Physics."
Physical Description:xi, 128 leaves : illustrations ; 29 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.