Production and trapping of carbon clusters for absolute mass measurements at ISOLTRAP

✍ Scribed by C. Scheidenberger; G. Bollen; F. Herfurth; A. Kellerbauer; H.-J. Kluge; M. Koizumi; S. Schwarz; L. Schweikhard

• Book ID: 104335425
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 80 KB
• Volume: 701
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0375-9474
• DOI: 10.1016/s0375-9474(01)01647-5

✦ Synopsis

Singly-charged carbon clusters C + n (n 1) have been produced by laser-induced desorption and fragmentation of C 60 fullerenes and have been injected into and stored in the Penning trap system of the ISOLTRAP mass spectrometer at ISOLDE/CERN. The present study is the first step to extend the until now direct mass measurements at ISOLTRAP to absolute mass measurements by using clusters of 12 C.