Measuring lifetimes of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon fragments. (July 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Wolf, M; Alexander, J D; Stockett, M H; Giacomozzi, L; de Ruette, N; Schmidt, H T; Zettergren, H; Cederquist, H
• Is Part Of: Journal of physics. Number 635(2015)
• Publication Date: 2015-07
• Subjects: Physics -- Congresses; 530.5
• DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/635/3/032067
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1742-6588

Abstract

Synopsis: We investigate collisions of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon cations with noble gases at center-of- mass energies close to 100 eV and below. Charged fragments are stored in a new version of the electrostatic ion beam trap ConeTrap. After storage for different well-defined times we extract the ions and use a reflectron based time-of-flight mass spectrometer to analyse the ion mass distributions. This will give information on secondary decay channels and the lifetime of the initially trapped fragment.