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At TRIUMF’s Ion Trap for Atomic and Nuclear Science (TITAN) a multiplereflection time-of-flight mass spectrometer (MR-TOF-MS) will extend TITAN’s capabilities and facilitate mass measurements and in-trap decay spectroscopy of exotic nuclei that so far have not been possible due to strong isobaric contaminations. This MR-TOF-MS will also enable mass measurements of very short-lived nuclides (half-life > 1 ms) that are produced in very low quantities (a few detected ions overall). In order to allow the installation of an MR-TOF-MS in the restricted space on the platform, on which the TITAN facility is located, novel mass spectrometric methods have been developed. Transport, cooling and distribution of the ions inside the device is done using a buffer gas-filled RFQ-based ion beam switchyard. Mass selection is achieved using a dynamic retrapping technique after time-of-flight analysis in an electrostatic isochronous reflector system. Only due to the combination of these novel methods the realization of an MR-TOF-MS based isobar separator at TITAN has become possible. The device has been built, commissioned off-line and is currently under installation at TITAN.
Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Trapped Charged Particles and Fundamental Physics (TCP 2014), Takamatsu, Japan, 1-5 December 2014
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Jesch, C. et al. (2017). The MR-TOF-MS isobar separator for the TITAN facility at TRIUMF. In: Wada, M., Schury, P., Ichikawa, Y. (eds) TCP 2014. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61588-2_21
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