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- Hartman, Henrik, et al.
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First storage of ion beams in the Double Electrostatic Ion-Ring Experiment : DESIREE
- 2013
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Ingår i: Review of Scientific Instruments. - : American Institute of Physics (AIP). - 0034-6748 .- 1089-7623. ; 84:5
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We report on the first storage of ion beams in the Double ElectroStatic Ion Ring ExpEriment, DESIREE, at Stockholm University. We have produced beams of atomic carbon anions and small carbon anion molecules (Cn-, n = 1, 2, 3, 4) in a sputter ion source. The ion beams were accelerated to 10 keV kinetic energy and stored in an electrostatic ion storage ring enclosed in a vacuum chamber at 13 K. For 10 keV C2- molecular anions we measure the residual-gas limited beam storage lifetime to be 448 s +/- 18 s with two independent detector systems. Using the measured storage lifetimes we estimate that the residual gas pressure is in the 10-14 mbar range. When high current ion beams are injected, the number of stored particles does not follow a single exponential decay law as would be expected for stored particles lost solely due to electron detachment in collision with the residual-gas. Instead, we observe a faster initial decay rate, which we ascribe to the effect of the space charge of the ion beam on the storage capacity.
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- Hartman, Henrik, et al.
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Negative ion relaxation and reactions in a cryogenic storage ring
- 2020
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Ingår i: Journal of Physics: Conference Series Vol 1412. - : IOP Publishing. - 1742-6588 .- 1742-6596.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- An overview of recent experimental results of studies of negative atomic and molecular ions in the Double ElectroStatic Ion-Ring ExpEriment, DESIREE is given. Metastable level lifetimes in atomic negative ions have been measured by time-dependent laser photodetachment. Rotational relaxation of diatomic anions is studied by near-threshold photodetachment. Spontaneous decays of small metal cluster anions by electron emission and fragmentation is studied with decay-channel specificity. Finally, mutual neutralisation of pairs of negative and positive ions has been investigated with initial and final state selectivity.
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- Najeeb, P. K., et al.
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Spontaneous decay of small carbon cluster dianions C-n(2-) (n=7-11)
- 2020
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Ingår i: Journal of Physics, Conference Series, Vol 1412, Article 232014. - : IOP Publishing. - 1742-6588 .- 1742-6596.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- We have studied the stabilities of small carbon dianion clusters, C-n(2-) (n=7-11) in the cryogenic electrostatic ion storage ring, DESIREE. We observe spontaneous electron emission for tens of milliseconds, where dianions containing an even number of carbons decay slower in comparison to their neighbouring cluster sizes. For all the systems considered here, we find that there is a component which is stable at least on the time scales of hundreds of milliseconds.
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- Stockett, M.H., et al.
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Spontaneous decay of small copper cluster anions, Cu_N^-, N = 3 - 6
- 2015
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Ingår i: Journal of Physics, Conference Series. - 1742-6588 .- 1742-6596. ; 635
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- We have measured the spontaneous neutral particle emission from beams of copper cluster anions (Cu_N, N = 3 to 6) stored in an electrostatic storage ring. These experiments have show that multiple structural isomers may be present in the beam.
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- Wolf, Michael, et al.
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PHOTO-STABILITY OF SUPER-HYDROGENATED PAHs DETERMINED BY ACTION SPECTROSCOPY EXPERIMENTS
- 2016
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Ingår i: Astrophysical Journal. - 0004-637X .- 1538-4357. ; 832:1
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We have investigated the photo-stability of pristine and super-hydrogenated pyrene cations (C16H10+m+, m = 0, 6, or 16) by means of gas-phase action spectroscopy. Optical absorption spectra and photoinduced dissociation mass spectra are presented. By measuring the yield of mass-selected photo-fragment ions as a function of laser pulse intensity, the number of photons (and hence the energy) needed for fragmentation of the carbon backbone was determined. Backbone fragmentation of pristine pyrene ions (C16H10+) requires absorption of three photons of energy just below 3 eV, whereas super-hydrogenated hexahydropyrene (C16H16+) must absorb two such photons and fully hydrogenated hexadecahydropyrene (C16H26+) only a single photon. These results are consistent with previously reported dissociation energies for these ions. Our experiments clearly demonstrate that the increased heat capacity from the additional hydrogen atoms does not compensate for the weakening of the carbon backbone when pyrene is hydrogenated. In photodissociation regions, super-hydrogenated Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) have been proposed to serve as catalysts for H-2 formation. Our results indicate that carbon backbone fragmentation may be a serious competitor to H-2 formation at least for small hydrogenated PAHs like pyrene.
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