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The squeezer ion guide
1992
Abstract The properties of an ordinary ion guide can be improved by inserting a grid between the nozzle and the skimmer. When positive ions are transported, an electric potential lower than +10 V is connected to the grid and one of the order of − 10 V to the skimmer. Efficient focusing is achieved between the nozzle and the grid by a combined action of the viscous helium flow field and the weak electric field. The focusing device is called a “squeezer”. It can be extended by adding more grids, a second skimmer, and differential pumping. Contrary to the first grid, the additional elements act more or less like electrostatic lenses in medium vacuum. With the squeezer ion guide, ions created i…
Plasma Effecton Pulse Parameters of Sound Wave
2019
This article presents the experimental results of the effect of gas discharge plasma on an acoustic wave. It is shown that after a certain intensity of the acoustic wave, the presence of plasma leads to a decrease in the Q -factor of the acoustic resonator, a shift in the acoustic resonance in the gas discharge tube at a lower frequency, and after switching off the acoustics, low-frequency gas oscillations with a frequency of 2 Hz are generated in the tube.
A dense polarized 3He target based on compression of optically pumped gas
1992
Abstract 3 He-gas is spin polarized by the method of optical pumping of metastables and metastability exchange in a low pressure gas discharge. At a pressure of p ≈ 1.5 Torr a volume of 1 l is polarized within about 30 s to a degree of 50% with 300 mW of incident light from an argon-ion laser pumped LNA laser, tuned to the λ = 1.083 μm resonance line. The polarized gas is compressed by a Toepler pump into a target cell of 120 cm 3 volume. In a first attempt a steady state polarization of 30% has been achieved in the target at a pressure of 685 Torr. The paper analyses the essential parameters governing this technique and pilotes its experimental realization.