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Charged Ice Particle Beams with Selected Narrow Mass and Kinetic Energy Distributions

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    0570975 - ÚFCH JH 2024 RIV US eng J - Journal Article
    Spesyvyi, Anatolii - Žabka, Ján - Polášek, Miroslav - Charvat, A. - Schmidt, J. - Postberg, F. - Abel, B.
    Charged Ice Particle Beams with Selected Narrow Mass and Kinetic Energy Distributions.
    Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry. Roč. 34, č. 5 (2023), s. 878-892. ISSN 1044-0305. E-ISSN 1879-1123
    R&D Projects: GA ČR(CZ) GC21-11931J
    Institutional support: RVO:61388955
    Keywords : Atmospheric chemistry * Energy * Kinetics * Nanoparticles
    OECD category: Physical chemistry
    Impact factor: 3.2, year: 2022
    Method of publishing: Limited access

    Small ice particles play an important role in atmospheric and extraterrestrial chemistry. Circumplanetary ice particles that are encountered by space probes at hypervelocities play a critical role in the determination of surface and subsurface properties of their source bodies. Here we present an apparatus for the generation of low-intensity beams of single mass-selected charged ice particles under vacuum. They are produced via electrospray ionization of water at atmospheric pressure and undergo evaporative cooling when transferred to vacuum through an atmospheric vacuum interface. m/z selection is achieved through two subsequent quadrupole mass filters operated in the variable-frequency mode within a range of m/z values between 8 × 104 and 3 × 107. Velocity and charge of the selected particles are measured using a nondestructive single-pass image charge detector. From the known electrostatic acceleration potentials and settings of the quadrupoles the particle masses could be obtained and be accurately controlled. It has been shown that the droplets are frozen within the transit time of the apparatus such that ice particles are present after the quadrupole stages and finally detected. The demonstrated correspondence between particle mass and specific quadrupole potentials in this device allows preparation of beams of single particles with a repetition rate between 0.1 and 1 Hz with various diameter distributions from 50 to 1000 nm at 30-250 eV of kinetic energy per charge. This corresponds to velocities and particle masses quickly available between 600 m/s (80 nm) and 50 m/s (900 nm) and particle charge numbers (positive) between 103 and 104[e], depending upon size.
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