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Highly-Charged Ion Interaction Beam Line
The Highly-Charged Ion Interactions Beam Line is designed for studies of interactions between the beam particles and solid or gaseous targets at the atomic level. It is equipped with a projectile charge-state spectrometer (featuring a vertical bending magnet and a microchannel plate position sensitive detector) and a differentially pumped gas target system (consisting of either a gas cell or a gas jet, and a time-of-flight spectrometer). Optionally, the projectile charge-state spectrometer may be replaced by a high resolution curved-crystal spectrometer (with provisions for both solid and gas targets), or by a solid state x-ray detector [Si(Li) or PIN diode].

This beam line is currently being used to examine:

(a) the dependence of target K-vacancy production cross sections on the projectile and target atomic number,

(b) the effects of secondary K-shell ionization of K-vacancy production cross sections,

(c) the charge state distributions of outgoing high-energy projectiles following their interaction with gas targets,

(d) the beam energy dependence of projectile charge-changing cross sections.

Projectile charge-state spectrometer
High resolution curved-crystal x-ray spectrometer
Gas jet system and ion-ion coincidence time-of-flight spectrometer
K500 Cyclotron ECR Ion Sources Proton Spectrometer MARS Big Sol NIMROD MDM
Ion Interactions Line Radiation Effects Facility Precision On-Line Decay Facility
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