Development of a projectile charge state analyzer and 10 kV bipolar power supply for MeV energy ion - atom/molecule collision experiments

2025/11/24 by Bari, Sandeep Bajrangi, Sykam, Sahan Raghava, Das, Ranojit +2
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph) #Atomic and Molecular Physics #FOS: Physical sciences #Particle accelerators and beam dynamics #X-ray Spectroscopy and Fluorescence Analysis

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2511.18707

openalex publication_date 2025/11/24 · openalex created_date 2025/11/27 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

We have developed a post-collision projectile charge state analyzer (CSA) for detecting the charge state of the projectile ion following ion-atom/molecule collision. The design of the analyzer, based on electrostatic parallel plate deflector was simulated using SIMION ion optics package. We have also developed a 10 kV bipolar programmable power supply to bias the CSA electrodes. The CSA and the power supply, both, were tested in collision studies using MeV energy ion beam of proton and carbon ions at the 1.7 MV tandetron accelerator facility at IIT Kanpur.

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