A compact dication source for Ba2+ tagging and heavy metal ion sensor development

The Next Collaboration

doi:10.1088/1748-0221/18/07/P07044

A compact dication source for Ba²⁺ tagging and heavy metal ion sensor development

The Next Collaboration

Unit of Nuclear Engineering

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Abstract

We present a tunable metal ion beam that delivers controllable ion currents in the picoamp range for testing of dry-phase ion sensors. Ion beams are formed by sequential atomic evaporation and single or multiple electron impact ionization, followed by acceleration into a sensing region. Controllability of the ionic charge state is achieved through tuning of electrode potentials that influence the retention time in the ionization region. Barium, lead, and cadmium samples have been used to test the system, with ion currents identified and quantified using a quadrupole mass analyzer. Realization of a clean Ba²⁺ ion beam within a bench-top system represents an important technical advance toward the development and characterization of barium tagging systems for neutrinoless double beta decay searches in xenon gas. This system also provides a testbed for investigation of novel ion sensing methodologies for environmental assay applications, with dication beams of Pb²+ and Cd²⁺ also demonstrated for this purpose.

Original language	English
Article number	P07044
Journal	Journal of Instrumentation
Volume	18
Issue number	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/18/07/P07044
State	Published - 1 Jul 2023

Keywords

Beam Optics
Heavy-ion detectors
Ion identification systems
Ion sources (positive ions,negative ions,electron cyclotron resonance (ECR),electron beam (EBIS))

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Instrumentation
Mathematical Physics

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