A space focused ion time of flight mass spectrometer, and spectroscopy of hydrogen chloride, deuterium chloride, and hydrogen sulfide at "hard" x-ray energies

A space-focused ion time-of-flight mass spectrometer was used to study the relaxation dynamics of HCl, DCl, and H{dollar}\sb2{dollar}S following the excitation of a K-shell electron using synchrotron radiation. On resonance, fragmentation of the molecule involving neutral dissociation of hydrogen was found to be a significant decay channel, thus raising questions of how effectively dissociation competes with Auger decay in the relaxation process. In addition, a space-focused ion time-of-flight mass spectrometer was constructed to be optimized for use at the Advanced Light Source in Berkeley, California. Peaks with less than 1 ns full-width at half-maximum have been observed.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Science (MS)

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Physics

Grantor dc:publisher

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Year

1995

Author dc:creator

• Hansen, David Linnemann

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Language dc:language

English

Identifier

https://oasis.library.unlv.edu/rtds/534

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:oasis.library.unlv.edu:rtds-1533