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Accession Number:
AD0601668
Title:
ION DISSOCIATION IN THE DRIFT TUBE OF A TIME-OFFLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETER: V. ANALYTIC SOLUTIONS OF THE FLIGHT-TIME SHIFT EQUATION,
Descriptive Note:
Corporate Author:
AIR FORCE CAMBRIDGE RESEARCH LABS L G HANSCOM FIELD MASS
Report Date:
1964-02-01
Pagination or Media Count:
11.0
Abstract:
Applying screened trapezoidal potential barriers in the drift tube of a time-of-flight mass spectrometer produces flighttime shifts that can be used to separate and identify products of ion dissociation processes occurring between the ion source and the potential barrier. The flight-time shift is a function of the retarder voltage and mass-to-charge ratios of the fragment and parent ions, expressed by the flight-time shift equation. When the retarder voltage is known, analytic solu tions of this equation allow the retarded ions fragment or parent to be identified from the measured flight-time shifts. When the mass-to-charge ratios of these ions are known, similar solutions allow the retarder voltage that will produce a given flight-time shift to be predicted. For part IV see AD-429 438. Author
Distribution Statement:
APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE