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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.
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