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2010 JINST 5 C09002
PUBLISHED BY IOP PUBLISHING FOR SISSA
RECEIVED July 1 2010ACCEPTED July 21 2010
PUBLISHED September 9 2010
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON ELECTRON BEAM ION SOURCES AND TRAPSAPRIL 7thndash10th 2010STOCKHOLM SWEDEN
High resolution resonant recombinationmeasurements using evaporative cooling technique
C Beilmann 1 JR Crespo L opez-Urrutia PH Mokler and J Ullrich
Max-Planck-Institut fur KernphysikSaupfercheckweg 1 69117 Heidelberg Germany
E-mail christianbeilmannmpi-hdmpgde
ABSTRACT We report on a method significantly improving the energy resolution of dielectronicrecombination (DR) measurements in electron beam ion traps(EBITs) The line width of DR reso-nances can be reduced to values distinctly smaller than the corresponding space charge width of theuncompensated electron beam The experimental technique based on forced evaporative cooling ispresented together with test measurements demonstrating its high efficiency The principle for res-olution improvement is elucidated and the limiting factorsare discussed This method opens accessto high resolution DR measurements at high ion-electron collision energies required for innermostshell DR in highly charged ions (HCI)
KEYWORDS Low-energy ion storage Plasma diagnostics - interferometry spectroscopy andimaging Ion sources (positive ions negative ions electron cyclotron resonance (ECR) electronbeam (EBIS))
1Corresponding author
ccopy 2010 IOP Publishing Ltd and SISSA doi1010881748-0221509C09002
2010 JINST 5 C09002
Contents
1 Introduction 1
2 Resolution of DR measurements 3
3 Electron energy resolution improvement 331 Standard methods for resolution improvement 432 Resolution improvement by evaporative cooling 5
4 Experimental results 6
5 Conclusion and outlook 6
1 Introduction
A wealth of crucial physical investigations was enforced bythe study of dielectronic recombination(DR) In this process a free electron interacts with an atomic one bound by the positive potential ofa highly charged ion (HCI) whereby its kinetic energy is directly transfered to the bound electron ofthe ion This dielectronic capture is a resonant process andleads usually to a doubly excited stateThe so-formed doubly excited state can deexcite radiatively to the ground state thus completing therecombination The strong increase of the electron capturecross section for resonant recombinationcompared to the continuous behavior of radiative recombination makes DR measurements to asuitable tool for atomic structure investigations of innershells in particular for studying quantumeffects interesting for fundamental atomic physics [1 2] for nuclear charge size investigations [3]and makes it also to a technical tool for control and analysisof nuclear fusion plasmas [4 5] toname but a few as applications of DR measurements In many cases a precise determination of theresonance energies is essential for these experiments demanding for the highest energy resolutionin DR measurements
In order to measure DR HCIs have to be provided and brought tocollisions with electronsunder extremely well defined energy conditions Experimentally this is realized in two differentways For the low collision energy range (0 to almost 2000 eV)fast ions are usually provided instorage rings (SR) and merged colinearly with electron beams of a dedicated electron target or anelectron cooler There DR is usually detected by monitoringthe down-charged ions as function ofthe relative collision energy (eg [6]) For the high collision energy range ie in the region beyondsim1 keV and up to the highest energies the best results on DR have been achieved using electronbeam ion traps (EBITs) [7] investigating for trapped ions (almost at rest) electron-ion collisions bymonitoring the stabilizing photon emission as a function ofthe electron beam energy
While in SR measurements due to the expansion of the energy scale caused by the transfor-mation from the comoving fast ion frame to the lab frame the resolution reaches at low resonance
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0
500
1000
Inte
nsi
ty (
au)
Electron beam energy (keV)
Be
B C
N
12
13
Photo
n e
ner
gy (
keV
)
Figure 1 KLL DR resonances in the energy range for B- to N-like Kr ions the focus in this work is theinvestigation of C-like ions (marked red region) At the topa two-dimensional intensity plot is shown thespectrum below is a projection on the electron beam energy axis
energies the sub-eV region the resolution in EBIT measurements ie for ions at rest shows athigh resonance energies values of few 10 eV This fact complicates the investigation of weak ef-fects in the high energy region where EBITs preferrably are used In this contribution we discussthe resolution of DR resonances measured in EBITs and present a method to improve the resolutionconsiderably for this kind of measurements
In an EBIT HCIs are produced by electron impact ionization by a dense electron beam com-pressed by the magnetic field of a superconducting magnet The electron beam confines the ions inradial direction by its strong negative space charge The axial confinement is ensured by a trappingpotential applied to a set of in principle three drift tubes around the reaction volume
In DR measurements the fast electrons serve both the needs for production of the ions andas collision partner for the DR process Variing the energy of the electron beam the electrons canrecombine around the resonance with the ions Via energy selective measurement of the photonsradiated during stabilization of the excited ions the recombination is detected an increase ofphotons having the transition energy of the excited state isthe signature for a DR resonance Thiscan be clearly seen by plotting the photon intensity in a two-dimensional representation versuselectron beam energy and photon energy around the DR resonances [8] cf figure1 In the figurethe region around C-like DR resonances in Kr30+ for then = 2rarr n = 1 photon transitions at around13 keV is shown together with the neighbouring B- and N-likesystems
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2 Resolution of DR measurements
The energy resolution of DR resonances in EBIT measurementsis dominated by the space chargeof the electron beam represented by the space charge potential [9]
Vsp(r) =Ie
4πε0vemiddot
(
rre
)2+ ln
(
rerdt
)2minus1 for r le re
2ln(
rrdt
)
for r ge re
(21)
Consequently the space charge potential of an electron beam with a currentIe and a radiusre
depends on the distancer to the axis of the beam inside a drift tube with radiusrdt Accordingto the number and charge state of the stored ions this potential is partially compensated leadingto an effective space charge potentialVeff(r) = Vsp(r) middot f The compensation factorf is given byf = sumqnqq middot nminus1
e wherenq represents the number of ions with a positive charge stateq andne
stands for the number of negative electrons [10] This compensation is difficult to estimate due tothe required knowledge of the exact charge state distribution of the ions and their quantity in theEBIT both depending on operational parameters (see also [11]) Moreover also ions of the residualgas contribute to the compensation additionally complicating the modelling for the space chargecompensation
The energy of the electrons is defined by the accelerating potentials at the drift tubes reducedby the effective space charge Accordingly the electrons have different energies concerning differ-ent distances to the beam axis despite seeing the same applied accelerating potentials Since onlythese potentials can be controlled and measured the actualenergy distribution of the electronsdominates the measured resolution at the resonance energies
Beyond current and electron energy the space charge dependson device-specific parameterslike the radius of the drift tubes and the radius of the electron beam that is again governed bythe compressing magnetic field and specifications of the electron gun [12] There are differentresolutions achieved in various EBITs built for diverse scientific needs In order to discuss theachieved resolution device independently we define a resolution parameterR as ratio between theFWHM (full width at half maximum) of the measured resonance∆Eexp and the calculated energydifference inside the electron beam caused by the uncompensated space charge potential difference∆VSP between the beam axis and the edge of the electron beam
R=∆Eexp
emiddot∆VSP(22)
For the radius of the electron beam we use for convenience here the Herrmann radius [12]
3 Electron energy resolution improvement
An optimal absolute resolution can be achieved by limiting the movement of the ions to a minimalaxial volume so that they are only hit by electrons nearest to the electron beam axis The naturalvolume where ions can be confined to is that of the electron beam itself because the ions areproduced in the whole beam volume To minimize the kinetic energy and thus the movement of theions the temperature development of the ions has to be considered in detail According to [9] theions are heated by impact with the electrons of the beam and bycollisions with other ions wherebydue to the loss of energetic ions in axial and radial direction the ions are cooled
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1
10
[13]
[14]
[15]
[16]
[17]
[18]
this work
Res
olu
tion
par
amet
er R
Measurement
Berlin Heidelberg
Dre
sden
Sh
angh
ai
respective space charge
of the electron beam
Figure 2 Comparison of the resolution parameterR= ∆Eexpemiddot∆Vsp the ratio of the experimental resolution(FWHM) for C-like KLL DR resonances in Kr to the calculated resolution due to the space charge widthof the uncompensated electron beam for several measurements in different EBITs [13ndash18] The differentlaboratories are indicated at the top While measurements using the standard method (diamonds) obtain aratio between 2 and 9 the measurement using forced evaporative cooling reaches a ratio of 046 (red dot)
31 Standard methods for resolution improvement
In previous measurements of DR resonances in EBITs both space charge and heating of ionswere minimized by reducing the electron beam current due to its linear dependence on the electrondensity [9] In particular the space charge potential itself is reduced and consequently also theabsolute energy width of the electron beam depending linearly on the beam current (eq (21)) Uti-lizing this space charge minimizing strategy resolution parametersR between 2 and 9 have beenreached for measurements of KLL DR resonances in krypton used for comparison here cf figure2mdash for further illustration of the method see also below figure4a This implies that the ion cloud oc-cupies obviously a bigger volume than the electron beam itself The high R values beyond 1 implythe effective electron beam radius may deviate from the Herrmann radius comprising nominallyonly 80 of the electron beam
The maximal attained space charge reduction by minimizing the electron beam current is lim-ited by different factors A reduction of the electron beam means a considerably less efficient ion-ization of the target gas by electron impact The highest charge states required for measurements ofKLL DR resonances are hardly reachable at low electron beam currents hence the current cannotbe reduced gratuitously Moreover a reduced electron intensity at low beam currents means a lowrecombination rate resulting in weak counting rates on top to the reduced ion density The reduc-tion of the radial space charge potential by lowering the electron current results beside a narrowerenergy width in a weaker confinement of the already sparse ions Hence this leads to a weakerspace charge compensation
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20
30
40
50
Exper
imen
tal
reso
luti
on (
eV)
Offset voltage on central drift tibe (V)
940 945 950
940 945 950
Eγ
Ee
respective space charge
of the electron beam
Figure 3 Improvement of KLL DR resolution (∆Eexp FWHM) in C-like Kr ions by evaporative coolingraising the voltage on the central drift tube the space charge generated rdquonaturalrdquo axial trapping potential iscompensated forcing the escape of the hottest ions in axial direction The diagram shows the reduction ofthe resolution (FWHM) of the first C-like DR resonance([1s2s22p2
12(2p232)2]52) as function of the offset
voltage at the central drift tube ie the positive voltageat the central drift tube with respect to the surroundingones The 3-dimensional illustrations on the top show theseresonances (Eγ asymp 13 keV Ee asymp 945 keV) at30V and 140V offset voltage the intensity for the recombination radiation is displayed as function of photonenergy and electron beam energy
32 Resolution improvement by evaporative cooling
The alternative method presented in this paper is the forcedcooling of the ions The present coolingtechnique opposes the space charge minimizing method applied previously Instead of a reductionof the space charge cooling of the ions by forced evaporation [19] is promoted Here the axialconfinement of the particles is reduced to cool them by the loss of the most energetic ones In [20]a method of evaporative cooling in an EBIT is discussed for the goal of producing the highestcharge states of heavy ions using a cooling gas In contrast to this in the present experimentsthe trap potential was optimized to maximal cooling in such away that the axial confinement wasreduced to a point where just the coldest ions are hold at the bottom of the trap with the objective ofresolution improvement Simultaneously a high electron beam current ofI = 200 mA was chosen toensure both a high ionization and recombination efficiency of the strongly confined ions in radialdirection With this it is additionally ensured that enoughatoms of the target gas as well as theresidual gas are ionized to reach a maximal compensation of the space charge further minimizingthe energy distribution of the ions
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The axial trap in an EBIT controlling the loss of the hottest ions is generated by positivepotentials at the surrounding drift tubes relative to the central one containing the reaction volumeBy applying equal potentials at all drift tubes there is still a trapping potential due to the dependenceof the space charge potential on the radius of the drift tubes(eq (21)) because in common EBITdesigns the surrounding drift tubes have smaller radii thanthe central one In our case the radiusof the central drift tube isrc = 5 mm where the surrounding ones have a radius ofrs = 15 mm Tocompensate this potential the voltage on the central drifttube was raised to a point where nearly norelaxation photons from DR were detected indicating a totally emptied trap Close to this thesholdthe weak trap is ideal for a strong radial confinement of the coldest ions only
4 Experimental results
To demonstrate the resolution improvement we have examined KLL DR resonances of kryptonin the Heidelberg-EBIT [21] The DR resonances in the energy region for N-like to O-likeDRwhere measured with different offset voltages on the central drift tube ie the positive voltage onthe central drift tube with respect to the surrounding onesThe measurement itself was performedby varying the electron beam energy in sawtooth ramps over the range of the expected resonanceenergies with a ramp velocity of 2 Vs to ensure a quasi-static charge state distribution The elec-tron energy was calibrated to the theoretical energies of C-like and N-like DR resonances takenfrom [22] The photons were detected with a high purity germanium x-ray detector and their num-ber in the energy region of then = 2 rarr n = 1 transitions (around 13 keV) was projected on theelectron energy axis cf figure1 Raising the voltage on the central drift tube the energy resolutionof the DR resonances improves significantly Figure3 shows the evolution of the resolution in de-pendence on the offset voltage of the central drift tube In a3-dimensional representation photoncounts for the C-like K-LL DR resonances are displayed as a function of electron beam energy andphoton energy Resonances that are not resolved by the classical measuring technique are clearlyseparated now by applying this method of forced evaporativecooling
The resolution progresses to values markedly smaller than the energy distribution of the un-compensated electron beam in our case down to 15 eV for an electron beam space charge potentialof 32 eV (cf figure3) This leads to an excellent resolution parameterR down to 046 indicating aminimal radial movement area for the ions and simultaneously to a high space charge compensa-tion of more than 50 The cooling is so effective that all theions are confined inside the electronbeam and thus the method further uses the high ion productionrate for space charge compensa-tion minimizing the electron energy spread Although good absolute energy resolutions have beenachieved in some EBITs [15] due to their individual device specifications non of thesemeasure-ments had resolved the compared resonances to values smaller than those corresponding to thespecific electron beam space charge widths (cf figure2)
5 Conclusion and outlook
The method described above mdash utilyzing forced evaporative cooling in an EBIT mdash improves forDR measurements the relative resolution represented by theresolution parameterR = ∆Eexpemiddot∆Vsp (eq (22)) by a factor of 4 to 20 (cf figure2) The advantage of the forced cooling technique
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Axial potential Radial potential
a)
b)
4 cm axial
trap length
resolution with
e-beam dillution
50 microm
e-beam diameter
resolution with
evaporative cooling
Figure 4 Illustration of the two methods for resolution improvement a) standard technique applying e-beam dilution and b) forced axial evaporative cooling technique with dense electron impact Axial andradial potentials and their changes are schematically displayed (left and right side respectively) For case a)the space charge potential is reduced by e-current reduction without touching the axial potentials (see redrarr blue curves) For case b) high e-current and space charge arenot changed however the axial potentialwell is reduced allowing forced evaporative cooling and thus concentrating the ions of interest radially to areduced volume (see redrarr blue curves the vertical two-sided arrows display the change in resolution)
introduced for resolution improvement over the previouslyused standard method of space chargeminimizing by electron beam dilution is summarized in figure4 (b and a respectively) For thestandard method (figure4a) only strong resonances can be measured due to the lack of intensity andthis only at a sparce charge limited resolution In contrastwith the forced axial evaporative coolingtechnique (figure4b) using dense electron impact faint structures are accessible at high resolutionA first result achieved in the Heidelberg-EBIT by means of this method is the evidence of KL-LLLtrielectronic recombination in highly charged krypton ions [22] This method can be utilized inother EBITs too The forced evaporative cooling techniqueapplied offers new opportunities instudying DR or other processes with high resolution and thisfor high resonance energies too
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[1] Z Harman et alBenchmarking high-field few-electron correlation and QED contributions in Hg75+
to Hg78+ ions II Theory Phys RevA 73 (2006) 052711
[2] AJ Gonzalez Martinez et alState-Selective Quantum Interference Observed in the Recombinationof Highly Charged Hg75+78+ Mercury Ions in an Electron Beam Ion TrapPhys Rev Lett94 (2005) 203201
[3] C Brandau et alIsotope Shift in the Dielectronic Recombination of Three-ElectronANd57+Phys Rev Lett100 (2008) 073201
[4] M Bitter et alSpectra of heliumlike krypton from Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor plasmasPhys Rev Lett71 (1993) 1007
[5] K Widmann et alStudies of He-like krypton for use in determining electron and ion temperatures invery-high-temperature plasmas Rev Sci Instrum66 (1995) 761
[6] D Nikolic et alDielectronic recombination resonances in Na8+ Phys RevA 70 (2004) 062723
[7] MA Levine RE Marrs JR Henderson DA Knapp and MB SchneiderThe Electron Beam IonTrap a New Instrument for Atomic Physics Measurements Phys ScriptaT 22 (1988) 157
[8] DA Knapp et alDielectronic recombination of heliumlike ions Phys RevA 47 (1993) 2039
[9] BM Penetrante et alEvolution of ion-charge-state distributions in an electron-beam ion trapPhys RevA 43 (1991) 4861
[10] K WidmannHigh-Resolution Spectroscopic Diagnostics of very High-Temperature Plasmas in theHard X-ray Regime PhD Thesis US Department of Energy Lawrence Livermore NationalLaboratory (1999)
[11] XLu et alNumerical simulation of the charge balance and temperatureevolution in an electronbeam ion trap Phys Rev ST12 (2009) 014401
[12] G HerrmannOptical Theory of Thermal Velocity Effects in Cylindrical Electron BeamsJ Appl Phys29 (1958) 127
[13] T Fuchs et alChannel-specific dielectronic recombination of highly charged kryptonPhys RevA 58 (1998) 4518
[14] R Radtke et alMeasurement of the radiative cooling rates for high-ionization species of kryptonusing an electron beam ion trap Phys RevE 61 (2000) 1966
[15] M Schmidt et alReport on the current developments and experiments of the Dresden EBIT SystemJ Phys Conf Ser72 (2007) 012020
[16] Z Hu et alMeasurement of the KLL Dielectronic Recombination Resonances in He-like to C-like KrIons Chin Phys Lett26 (2009) 033401
[17] JR Crespo Lopez-Urrutia et alOptimization of the charge state distribution of the ion beamextracted from an EBIT by dielectronic recombination Rev Sci Instrum75 (2004) 1560
[18] AJ Gonzalez MartınezQuantum interference in the dielectronic recombination ofheavy highlycharged ions PhD Thesis University of Heidelberg (2005)
[19] CE KlotsEvaporative cooling J Chem Phys83 (1985) 5854
[20] BM Penetrante et alEvaporative cooling of highly charged dysprosium ions in anenhancedelectron-beam ion trap Phys RevA 43 (1991) 4873
[21] JR Crespo Lopez-Urrutia et alThe Freiburg Electron Beam Ion TrapSource Project FreEBIT
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Phys ScriptaT 80 (1999) 502
[22] C Beilmann et alIntershell trielectronic recombination with K-shell excitation in Kr30+Phys RevA 80 (2009) 050702
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PUBLISHED BY IOP PUBLISHING FOR SISSA
RECEIVED July 1 2010ACCEPTED July 21 2010
PUBLISHED September 9 2010
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON ELECTRON BEAM ION SOURCES AND TRAPSAPRIL 7thndash10th 2010STOCKHOLM SWEDEN
High resolution resonant recombinationmeasurements using evaporative cooling technique
C Beilmann 1 JR Crespo L opez-Urrutia PH Mokler and J Ullrich
Max-Planck-Institut fur KernphysikSaupfercheckweg 1 69117 Heidelberg Germany
E-mail christianbeilmannmpi-hdmpgde
ABSTRACT We report on a method significantly improving the energy resolution of dielectronicrecombination (DR) measurements in electron beam ion traps(EBITs) The line width of DR reso-nances can be reduced to values distinctly smaller than the corresponding space charge width of theuncompensated electron beam The experimental technique based on forced evaporative cooling ispresented together with test measurements demonstrating its high efficiency The principle for res-olution improvement is elucidated and the limiting factorsare discussed This method opens accessto high resolution DR measurements at high ion-electron collision energies required for innermostshell DR in highly charged ions (HCI)
KEYWORDS Low-energy ion storage Plasma diagnostics - interferometry spectroscopy andimaging Ion sources (positive ions negative ions electron cyclotron resonance (ECR) electronbeam (EBIS))
1Corresponding author
ccopy 2010 IOP Publishing Ltd and SISSA doi1010881748-0221509C09002
2010 JINST 5 C09002
Contents
1 Introduction 1
2 Resolution of DR measurements 3
3 Electron energy resolution improvement 331 Standard methods for resolution improvement 432 Resolution improvement by evaporative cooling 5
4 Experimental results 6
5 Conclusion and outlook 6
1 Introduction
A wealth of crucial physical investigations was enforced bythe study of dielectronic recombination(DR) In this process a free electron interacts with an atomic one bound by the positive potential ofa highly charged ion (HCI) whereby its kinetic energy is directly transfered to the bound electron ofthe ion This dielectronic capture is a resonant process andleads usually to a doubly excited stateThe so-formed doubly excited state can deexcite radiatively to the ground state thus completing therecombination The strong increase of the electron capturecross section for resonant recombinationcompared to the continuous behavior of radiative recombination makes DR measurements to asuitable tool for atomic structure investigations of innershells in particular for studying quantumeffects interesting for fundamental atomic physics [1 2] for nuclear charge size investigations [3]and makes it also to a technical tool for control and analysisof nuclear fusion plasmas [4 5] toname but a few as applications of DR measurements In many cases a precise determination of theresonance energies is essential for these experiments demanding for the highest energy resolutionin DR measurements
In order to measure DR HCIs have to be provided and brought tocollisions with electronsunder extremely well defined energy conditions Experimentally this is realized in two differentways For the low collision energy range (0 to almost 2000 eV)fast ions are usually provided instorage rings (SR) and merged colinearly with electron beams of a dedicated electron target or anelectron cooler There DR is usually detected by monitoringthe down-charged ions as function ofthe relative collision energy (eg [6]) For the high collision energy range ie in the region beyondsim1 keV and up to the highest energies the best results on DR have been achieved using electronbeam ion traps (EBITs) [7] investigating for trapped ions (almost at rest) electron-ion collisions bymonitoring the stabilizing photon emission as a function ofthe electron beam energy
While in SR measurements due to the expansion of the energy scale caused by the transfor-mation from the comoving fast ion frame to the lab frame the resolution reaches at low resonance
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0
500
1000
Inte
nsi
ty (
au)
Electron beam energy (keV)
Be
B C
N
12
13
Photo
n e
ner
gy (
keV
)
Figure 1 KLL DR resonances in the energy range for B- to N-like Kr ions the focus in this work is theinvestigation of C-like ions (marked red region) At the topa two-dimensional intensity plot is shown thespectrum below is a projection on the electron beam energy axis
energies the sub-eV region the resolution in EBIT measurements ie for ions at rest shows athigh resonance energies values of few 10 eV This fact complicates the investigation of weak ef-fects in the high energy region where EBITs preferrably are used In this contribution we discussthe resolution of DR resonances measured in EBITs and present a method to improve the resolutionconsiderably for this kind of measurements
In an EBIT HCIs are produced by electron impact ionization by a dense electron beam com-pressed by the magnetic field of a superconducting magnet The electron beam confines the ions inradial direction by its strong negative space charge The axial confinement is ensured by a trappingpotential applied to a set of in principle three drift tubes around the reaction volume
In DR measurements the fast electrons serve both the needs for production of the ions andas collision partner for the DR process Variing the energy of the electron beam the electrons canrecombine around the resonance with the ions Via energy selective measurement of the photonsradiated during stabilization of the excited ions the recombination is detected an increase ofphotons having the transition energy of the excited state isthe signature for a DR resonance Thiscan be clearly seen by plotting the photon intensity in a two-dimensional representation versuselectron beam energy and photon energy around the DR resonances [8] cf figure1 In the figurethe region around C-like DR resonances in Kr30+ for then = 2rarr n = 1 photon transitions at around13 keV is shown together with the neighbouring B- and N-likesystems
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2 Resolution of DR measurements
The energy resolution of DR resonances in EBIT measurementsis dominated by the space chargeof the electron beam represented by the space charge potential [9]
Vsp(r) =Ie
4πε0vemiddot
(
rre
)2+ ln
(
rerdt
)2minus1 for r le re
2ln(
rrdt
)
for r ge re
(21)
Consequently the space charge potential of an electron beam with a currentIe and a radiusre
depends on the distancer to the axis of the beam inside a drift tube with radiusrdt Accordingto the number and charge state of the stored ions this potential is partially compensated leadingto an effective space charge potentialVeff(r) = Vsp(r) middot f The compensation factorf is given byf = sumqnqq middot nminus1
e wherenq represents the number of ions with a positive charge stateq andne
stands for the number of negative electrons [10] This compensation is difficult to estimate due tothe required knowledge of the exact charge state distribution of the ions and their quantity in theEBIT both depending on operational parameters (see also [11]) Moreover also ions of the residualgas contribute to the compensation additionally complicating the modelling for the space chargecompensation
The energy of the electrons is defined by the accelerating potentials at the drift tubes reducedby the effective space charge Accordingly the electrons have different energies concerning differ-ent distances to the beam axis despite seeing the same applied accelerating potentials Since onlythese potentials can be controlled and measured the actualenergy distribution of the electronsdominates the measured resolution at the resonance energies
Beyond current and electron energy the space charge dependson device-specific parameterslike the radius of the drift tubes and the radius of the electron beam that is again governed bythe compressing magnetic field and specifications of the electron gun [12] There are differentresolutions achieved in various EBITs built for diverse scientific needs In order to discuss theachieved resolution device independently we define a resolution parameterR as ratio between theFWHM (full width at half maximum) of the measured resonance∆Eexp and the calculated energydifference inside the electron beam caused by the uncompensated space charge potential difference∆VSP between the beam axis and the edge of the electron beam
R=∆Eexp
emiddot∆VSP(22)
For the radius of the electron beam we use for convenience here the Herrmann radius [12]
3 Electron energy resolution improvement
An optimal absolute resolution can be achieved by limiting the movement of the ions to a minimalaxial volume so that they are only hit by electrons nearest to the electron beam axis The naturalvolume where ions can be confined to is that of the electron beam itself because the ions areproduced in the whole beam volume To minimize the kinetic energy and thus the movement of theions the temperature development of the ions has to be considered in detail According to [9] theions are heated by impact with the electrons of the beam and bycollisions with other ions wherebydue to the loss of energetic ions in axial and radial direction the ions are cooled
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01
1
10
[13]
[14]
[15]
[16]
[17]
[18]
this work
Res
olu
tion
par
amet
er R
Measurement
Berlin Heidelberg
Dre
sden
Sh
angh
ai
respective space charge
of the electron beam
Figure 2 Comparison of the resolution parameterR= ∆Eexpemiddot∆Vsp the ratio of the experimental resolution(FWHM) for C-like KLL DR resonances in Kr to the calculated resolution due to the space charge widthof the uncompensated electron beam for several measurements in different EBITs [13ndash18] The differentlaboratories are indicated at the top While measurements using the standard method (diamonds) obtain aratio between 2 and 9 the measurement using forced evaporative cooling reaches a ratio of 046 (red dot)
31 Standard methods for resolution improvement
In previous measurements of DR resonances in EBITs both space charge and heating of ionswere minimized by reducing the electron beam current due to its linear dependence on the electrondensity [9] In particular the space charge potential itself is reduced and consequently also theabsolute energy width of the electron beam depending linearly on the beam current (eq (21)) Uti-lizing this space charge minimizing strategy resolution parametersR between 2 and 9 have beenreached for measurements of KLL DR resonances in krypton used for comparison here cf figure2mdash for further illustration of the method see also below figure4a This implies that the ion cloud oc-cupies obviously a bigger volume than the electron beam itself The high R values beyond 1 implythe effective electron beam radius may deviate from the Herrmann radius comprising nominallyonly 80 of the electron beam
The maximal attained space charge reduction by minimizing the electron beam current is lim-ited by different factors A reduction of the electron beam means a considerably less efficient ion-ization of the target gas by electron impact The highest charge states required for measurements ofKLL DR resonances are hardly reachable at low electron beam currents hence the current cannotbe reduced gratuitously Moreover a reduced electron intensity at low beam currents means a lowrecombination rate resulting in weak counting rates on top to the reduced ion density The reduc-tion of the radial space charge potential by lowering the electron current results beside a narrowerenergy width in a weaker confinement of the already sparse ions Hence this leads to a weakerspace charge compensation
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30 50 70 90 110 130 15010
20
30
40
50
Exper
imen
tal
reso
luti
on (
eV)
Offset voltage on central drift tibe (V)
940 945 950
940 945 950
Eγ
Ee
respective space charge
of the electron beam
Figure 3 Improvement of KLL DR resolution (∆Eexp FWHM) in C-like Kr ions by evaporative coolingraising the voltage on the central drift tube the space charge generated rdquonaturalrdquo axial trapping potential iscompensated forcing the escape of the hottest ions in axial direction The diagram shows the reduction ofthe resolution (FWHM) of the first C-like DR resonance([1s2s22p2
12(2p232)2]52) as function of the offset
voltage at the central drift tube ie the positive voltageat the central drift tube with respect to the surroundingones The 3-dimensional illustrations on the top show theseresonances (Eγ asymp 13 keV Ee asymp 945 keV) at30V and 140V offset voltage the intensity for the recombination radiation is displayed as function of photonenergy and electron beam energy
32 Resolution improvement by evaporative cooling
The alternative method presented in this paper is the forcedcooling of the ions The present coolingtechnique opposes the space charge minimizing method applied previously Instead of a reductionof the space charge cooling of the ions by forced evaporation [19] is promoted Here the axialconfinement of the particles is reduced to cool them by the loss of the most energetic ones In [20]a method of evaporative cooling in an EBIT is discussed for the goal of producing the highestcharge states of heavy ions using a cooling gas In contrast to this in the present experimentsthe trap potential was optimized to maximal cooling in such away that the axial confinement wasreduced to a point where just the coldest ions are hold at the bottom of the trap with the objective ofresolution improvement Simultaneously a high electron beam current ofI = 200 mA was chosen toensure both a high ionization and recombination efficiency of the strongly confined ions in radialdirection With this it is additionally ensured that enoughatoms of the target gas as well as theresidual gas are ionized to reach a maximal compensation of the space charge further minimizingthe energy distribution of the ions
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The axial trap in an EBIT controlling the loss of the hottest ions is generated by positivepotentials at the surrounding drift tubes relative to the central one containing the reaction volumeBy applying equal potentials at all drift tubes there is still a trapping potential due to the dependenceof the space charge potential on the radius of the drift tubes(eq (21)) because in common EBITdesigns the surrounding drift tubes have smaller radii thanthe central one In our case the radiusof the central drift tube isrc = 5 mm where the surrounding ones have a radius ofrs = 15 mm Tocompensate this potential the voltage on the central drifttube was raised to a point where nearly norelaxation photons from DR were detected indicating a totally emptied trap Close to this thesholdthe weak trap is ideal for a strong radial confinement of the coldest ions only
4 Experimental results
To demonstrate the resolution improvement we have examined KLL DR resonances of kryptonin the Heidelberg-EBIT [21] The DR resonances in the energy region for N-like to O-likeDRwhere measured with different offset voltages on the central drift tube ie the positive voltage onthe central drift tube with respect to the surrounding onesThe measurement itself was performedby varying the electron beam energy in sawtooth ramps over the range of the expected resonanceenergies with a ramp velocity of 2 Vs to ensure a quasi-static charge state distribution The elec-tron energy was calibrated to the theoretical energies of C-like and N-like DR resonances takenfrom [22] The photons were detected with a high purity germanium x-ray detector and their num-ber in the energy region of then = 2 rarr n = 1 transitions (around 13 keV) was projected on theelectron energy axis cf figure1 Raising the voltage on the central drift tube the energy resolutionof the DR resonances improves significantly Figure3 shows the evolution of the resolution in de-pendence on the offset voltage of the central drift tube In a3-dimensional representation photoncounts for the C-like K-LL DR resonances are displayed as a function of electron beam energy andphoton energy Resonances that are not resolved by the classical measuring technique are clearlyseparated now by applying this method of forced evaporativecooling
The resolution progresses to values markedly smaller than the energy distribution of the un-compensated electron beam in our case down to 15 eV for an electron beam space charge potentialof 32 eV (cf figure3) This leads to an excellent resolution parameterR down to 046 indicating aminimal radial movement area for the ions and simultaneously to a high space charge compensa-tion of more than 50 The cooling is so effective that all theions are confined inside the electronbeam and thus the method further uses the high ion productionrate for space charge compensa-tion minimizing the electron energy spread Although good absolute energy resolutions have beenachieved in some EBITs [15] due to their individual device specifications non of thesemeasure-ments had resolved the compared resonances to values smaller than those corresponding to thespecific electron beam space charge widths (cf figure2)
5 Conclusion and outlook
The method described above mdash utilyzing forced evaporative cooling in an EBIT mdash improves forDR measurements the relative resolution represented by theresolution parameterR = ∆Eexpemiddot∆Vsp (eq (22)) by a factor of 4 to 20 (cf figure2) The advantage of the forced cooling technique
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Axial potential Radial potential
a)
b)
4 cm axial
trap length
resolution with
e-beam dillution
50 microm
e-beam diameter
resolution with
evaporative cooling
Figure 4 Illustration of the two methods for resolution improvement a) standard technique applying e-beam dilution and b) forced axial evaporative cooling technique with dense electron impact Axial andradial potentials and their changes are schematically displayed (left and right side respectively) For case a)the space charge potential is reduced by e-current reduction without touching the axial potentials (see redrarr blue curves) For case b) high e-current and space charge arenot changed however the axial potentialwell is reduced allowing forced evaporative cooling and thus concentrating the ions of interest radially to areduced volume (see redrarr blue curves the vertical two-sided arrows display the change in resolution)
introduced for resolution improvement over the previouslyused standard method of space chargeminimizing by electron beam dilution is summarized in figure4 (b and a respectively) For thestandard method (figure4a) only strong resonances can be measured due to the lack of intensity andthis only at a sparce charge limited resolution In contrastwith the forced axial evaporative coolingtechnique (figure4b) using dense electron impact faint structures are accessible at high resolutionA first result achieved in the Heidelberg-EBIT by means of this method is the evidence of KL-LLLtrielectronic recombination in highly charged krypton ions [22] This method can be utilized inother EBITs too The forced evaporative cooling techniqueapplied offers new opportunities instudying DR or other processes with high resolution and thisfor high resonance energies too
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References
[1] Z Harman et alBenchmarking high-field few-electron correlation and QED contributions in Hg75+
to Hg78+ ions II Theory Phys RevA 73 (2006) 052711
[2] AJ Gonzalez Martinez et alState-Selective Quantum Interference Observed in the Recombinationof Highly Charged Hg75+78+ Mercury Ions in an Electron Beam Ion TrapPhys Rev Lett94 (2005) 203201
[3] C Brandau et alIsotope Shift in the Dielectronic Recombination of Three-ElectronANd57+Phys Rev Lett100 (2008) 073201
[4] M Bitter et alSpectra of heliumlike krypton from Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor plasmasPhys Rev Lett71 (1993) 1007
[5] K Widmann et alStudies of He-like krypton for use in determining electron and ion temperatures invery-high-temperature plasmas Rev Sci Instrum66 (1995) 761
[6] D Nikolic et alDielectronic recombination resonances in Na8+ Phys RevA 70 (2004) 062723
[7] MA Levine RE Marrs JR Henderson DA Knapp and MB SchneiderThe Electron Beam IonTrap a New Instrument for Atomic Physics Measurements Phys ScriptaT 22 (1988) 157
[8] DA Knapp et alDielectronic recombination of heliumlike ions Phys RevA 47 (1993) 2039
[9] BM Penetrante et alEvolution of ion-charge-state distributions in an electron-beam ion trapPhys RevA 43 (1991) 4861
[10] K WidmannHigh-Resolution Spectroscopic Diagnostics of very High-Temperature Plasmas in theHard X-ray Regime PhD Thesis US Department of Energy Lawrence Livermore NationalLaboratory (1999)
[11] XLu et alNumerical simulation of the charge balance and temperatureevolution in an electronbeam ion trap Phys Rev ST12 (2009) 014401
[12] G HerrmannOptical Theory of Thermal Velocity Effects in Cylindrical Electron BeamsJ Appl Phys29 (1958) 127
[13] T Fuchs et alChannel-specific dielectronic recombination of highly charged kryptonPhys RevA 58 (1998) 4518
[14] R Radtke et alMeasurement of the radiative cooling rates for high-ionization species of kryptonusing an electron beam ion trap Phys RevE 61 (2000) 1966
[15] M Schmidt et alReport on the current developments and experiments of the Dresden EBIT SystemJ Phys Conf Ser72 (2007) 012020
[16] Z Hu et alMeasurement of the KLL Dielectronic Recombination Resonances in He-like to C-like KrIons Chin Phys Lett26 (2009) 033401
[17] JR Crespo Lopez-Urrutia et alOptimization of the charge state distribution of the ion beamextracted from an EBIT by dielectronic recombination Rev Sci Instrum75 (2004) 1560
[18] AJ Gonzalez MartınezQuantum interference in the dielectronic recombination ofheavy highlycharged ions PhD Thesis University of Heidelberg (2005)
[19] CE KlotsEvaporative cooling J Chem Phys83 (1985) 5854
[20] BM Penetrante et alEvaporative cooling of highly charged dysprosium ions in anenhancedelectron-beam ion trap Phys RevA 43 (1991) 4873
[21] JR Crespo Lopez-Urrutia et alThe Freiburg Electron Beam Ion TrapSource Project FreEBIT
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Phys ScriptaT 80 (1999) 502
[22] C Beilmann et alIntershell trielectronic recombination with K-shell excitation in Kr30+Phys RevA 80 (2009) 050702
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Contents
1 Introduction 1
2 Resolution of DR measurements 3
3 Electron energy resolution improvement 331 Standard methods for resolution improvement 432 Resolution improvement by evaporative cooling 5
4 Experimental results 6
5 Conclusion and outlook 6
1 Introduction
A wealth of crucial physical investigations was enforced bythe study of dielectronic recombination(DR) In this process a free electron interacts with an atomic one bound by the positive potential ofa highly charged ion (HCI) whereby its kinetic energy is directly transfered to the bound electron ofthe ion This dielectronic capture is a resonant process andleads usually to a doubly excited stateThe so-formed doubly excited state can deexcite radiatively to the ground state thus completing therecombination The strong increase of the electron capturecross section for resonant recombinationcompared to the continuous behavior of radiative recombination makes DR measurements to asuitable tool for atomic structure investigations of innershells in particular for studying quantumeffects interesting for fundamental atomic physics [1 2] for nuclear charge size investigations [3]and makes it also to a technical tool for control and analysisof nuclear fusion plasmas [4 5] toname but a few as applications of DR measurements In many cases a precise determination of theresonance energies is essential for these experiments demanding for the highest energy resolutionin DR measurements
In order to measure DR HCIs have to be provided and brought tocollisions with electronsunder extremely well defined energy conditions Experimentally this is realized in two differentways For the low collision energy range (0 to almost 2000 eV)fast ions are usually provided instorage rings (SR) and merged colinearly with electron beams of a dedicated electron target or anelectron cooler There DR is usually detected by monitoringthe down-charged ions as function ofthe relative collision energy (eg [6]) For the high collision energy range ie in the region beyondsim1 keV and up to the highest energies the best results on DR have been achieved using electronbeam ion traps (EBITs) [7] investigating for trapped ions (almost at rest) electron-ion collisions bymonitoring the stabilizing photon emission as a function ofthe electron beam energy
While in SR measurements due to the expansion of the energy scale caused by the transfor-mation from the comoving fast ion frame to the lab frame the resolution reaches at low resonance
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0
500
1000
Inte
nsi
ty (
au)
Electron beam energy (keV)
Be
B C
N
12
13
Photo
n e
ner
gy (
keV
)
Figure 1 KLL DR resonances in the energy range for B- to N-like Kr ions the focus in this work is theinvestigation of C-like ions (marked red region) At the topa two-dimensional intensity plot is shown thespectrum below is a projection on the electron beam energy axis
energies the sub-eV region the resolution in EBIT measurements ie for ions at rest shows athigh resonance energies values of few 10 eV This fact complicates the investigation of weak ef-fects in the high energy region where EBITs preferrably are used In this contribution we discussthe resolution of DR resonances measured in EBITs and present a method to improve the resolutionconsiderably for this kind of measurements
In an EBIT HCIs are produced by electron impact ionization by a dense electron beam com-pressed by the magnetic field of a superconducting magnet The electron beam confines the ions inradial direction by its strong negative space charge The axial confinement is ensured by a trappingpotential applied to a set of in principle three drift tubes around the reaction volume
In DR measurements the fast electrons serve both the needs for production of the ions andas collision partner for the DR process Variing the energy of the electron beam the electrons canrecombine around the resonance with the ions Via energy selective measurement of the photonsradiated during stabilization of the excited ions the recombination is detected an increase ofphotons having the transition energy of the excited state isthe signature for a DR resonance Thiscan be clearly seen by plotting the photon intensity in a two-dimensional representation versuselectron beam energy and photon energy around the DR resonances [8] cf figure1 In the figurethe region around C-like DR resonances in Kr30+ for then = 2rarr n = 1 photon transitions at around13 keV is shown together with the neighbouring B- and N-likesystems
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2 Resolution of DR measurements
The energy resolution of DR resonances in EBIT measurementsis dominated by the space chargeof the electron beam represented by the space charge potential [9]
Vsp(r) =Ie
4πε0vemiddot
(
rre
)2+ ln
(
rerdt
)2minus1 for r le re
2ln(
rrdt
)
for r ge re
(21)
Consequently the space charge potential of an electron beam with a currentIe and a radiusre
depends on the distancer to the axis of the beam inside a drift tube with radiusrdt Accordingto the number and charge state of the stored ions this potential is partially compensated leadingto an effective space charge potentialVeff(r) = Vsp(r) middot f The compensation factorf is given byf = sumqnqq middot nminus1
e wherenq represents the number of ions with a positive charge stateq andne
stands for the number of negative electrons [10] This compensation is difficult to estimate due tothe required knowledge of the exact charge state distribution of the ions and their quantity in theEBIT both depending on operational parameters (see also [11]) Moreover also ions of the residualgas contribute to the compensation additionally complicating the modelling for the space chargecompensation
The energy of the electrons is defined by the accelerating potentials at the drift tubes reducedby the effective space charge Accordingly the electrons have different energies concerning differ-ent distances to the beam axis despite seeing the same applied accelerating potentials Since onlythese potentials can be controlled and measured the actualenergy distribution of the electronsdominates the measured resolution at the resonance energies
Beyond current and electron energy the space charge dependson device-specific parameterslike the radius of the drift tubes and the radius of the electron beam that is again governed bythe compressing magnetic field and specifications of the electron gun [12] There are differentresolutions achieved in various EBITs built for diverse scientific needs In order to discuss theachieved resolution device independently we define a resolution parameterR as ratio between theFWHM (full width at half maximum) of the measured resonance∆Eexp and the calculated energydifference inside the electron beam caused by the uncompensated space charge potential difference∆VSP between the beam axis and the edge of the electron beam
R=∆Eexp
emiddot∆VSP(22)
For the radius of the electron beam we use for convenience here the Herrmann radius [12]
3 Electron energy resolution improvement
An optimal absolute resolution can be achieved by limiting the movement of the ions to a minimalaxial volume so that they are only hit by electrons nearest to the electron beam axis The naturalvolume where ions can be confined to is that of the electron beam itself because the ions areproduced in the whole beam volume To minimize the kinetic energy and thus the movement of theions the temperature development of the ions has to be considered in detail According to [9] theions are heated by impact with the electrons of the beam and bycollisions with other ions wherebydue to the loss of energetic ions in axial and radial direction the ions are cooled
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1
10
[13]
[14]
[15]
[16]
[17]
[18]
this work
Res
olu
tion
par
amet
er R
Measurement
Berlin Heidelberg
Dre
sden
Sh
angh
ai
respective space charge
of the electron beam
Figure 2 Comparison of the resolution parameterR= ∆Eexpemiddot∆Vsp the ratio of the experimental resolution(FWHM) for C-like KLL DR resonances in Kr to the calculated resolution due to the space charge widthof the uncompensated electron beam for several measurements in different EBITs [13ndash18] The differentlaboratories are indicated at the top While measurements using the standard method (diamonds) obtain aratio between 2 and 9 the measurement using forced evaporative cooling reaches a ratio of 046 (red dot)
31 Standard methods for resolution improvement
In previous measurements of DR resonances in EBITs both space charge and heating of ionswere minimized by reducing the electron beam current due to its linear dependence on the electrondensity [9] In particular the space charge potential itself is reduced and consequently also theabsolute energy width of the electron beam depending linearly on the beam current (eq (21)) Uti-lizing this space charge minimizing strategy resolution parametersR between 2 and 9 have beenreached for measurements of KLL DR resonances in krypton used for comparison here cf figure2mdash for further illustration of the method see also below figure4a This implies that the ion cloud oc-cupies obviously a bigger volume than the electron beam itself The high R values beyond 1 implythe effective electron beam radius may deviate from the Herrmann radius comprising nominallyonly 80 of the electron beam
The maximal attained space charge reduction by minimizing the electron beam current is lim-ited by different factors A reduction of the electron beam means a considerably less efficient ion-ization of the target gas by electron impact The highest charge states required for measurements ofKLL DR resonances are hardly reachable at low electron beam currents hence the current cannotbe reduced gratuitously Moreover a reduced electron intensity at low beam currents means a lowrecombination rate resulting in weak counting rates on top to the reduced ion density The reduc-tion of the radial space charge potential by lowering the electron current results beside a narrowerenergy width in a weaker confinement of the already sparse ions Hence this leads to a weakerspace charge compensation
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20
30
40
50
Exper
imen
tal
reso
luti
on (
eV)
Offset voltage on central drift tibe (V)
940 945 950
940 945 950
Eγ
Ee
respective space charge
of the electron beam
Figure 3 Improvement of KLL DR resolution (∆Eexp FWHM) in C-like Kr ions by evaporative coolingraising the voltage on the central drift tube the space charge generated rdquonaturalrdquo axial trapping potential iscompensated forcing the escape of the hottest ions in axial direction The diagram shows the reduction ofthe resolution (FWHM) of the first C-like DR resonance([1s2s22p2
12(2p232)2]52) as function of the offset
voltage at the central drift tube ie the positive voltageat the central drift tube with respect to the surroundingones The 3-dimensional illustrations on the top show theseresonances (Eγ asymp 13 keV Ee asymp 945 keV) at30V and 140V offset voltage the intensity for the recombination radiation is displayed as function of photonenergy and electron beam energy
32 Resolution improvement by evaporative cooling
The alternative method presented in this paper is the forcedcooling of the ions The present coolingtechnique opposes the space charge minimizing method applied previously Instead of a reductionof the space charge cooling of the ions by forced evaporation [19] is promoted Here the axialconfinement of the particles is reduced to cool them by the loss of the most energetic ones In [20]a method of evaporative cooling in an EBIT is discussed for the goal of producing the highestcharge states of heavy ions using a cooling gas In contrast to this in the present experimentsthe trap potential was optimized to maximal cooling in such away that the axial confinement wasreduced to a point where just the coldest ions are hold at the bottom of the trap with the objective ofresolution improvement Simultaneously a high electron beam current ofI = 200 mA was chosen toensure both a high ionization and recombination efficiency of the strongly confined ions in radialdirection With this it is additionally ensured that enoughatoms of the target gas as well as theresidual gas are ionized to reach a maximal compensation of the space charge further minimizingthe energy distribution of the ions
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The axial trap in an EBIT controlling the loss of the hottest ions is generated by positivepotentials at the surrounding drift tubes relative to the central one containing the reaction volumeBy applying equal potentials at all drift tubes there is still a trapping potential due to the dependenceof the space charge potential on the radius of the drift tubes(eq (21)) because in common EBITdesigns the surrounding drift tubes have smaller radii thanthe central one In our case the radiusof the central drift tube isrc = 5 mm where the surrounding ones have a radius ofrs = 15 mm Tocompensate this potential the voltage on the central drifttube was raised to a point where nearly norelaxation photons from DR were detected indicating a totally emptied trap Close to this thesholdthe weak trap is ideal for a strong radial confinement of the coldest ions only
4 Experimental results
To demonstrate the resolution improvement we have examined KLL DR resonances of kryptonin the Heidelberg-EBIT [21] The DR resonances in the energy region for N-like to O-likeDRwhere measured with different offset voltages on the central drift tube ie the positive voltage onthe central drift tube with respect to the surrounding onesThe measurement itself was performedby varying the electron beam energy in sawtooth ramps over the range of the expected resonanceenergies with a ramp velocity of 2 Vs to ensure a quasi-static charge state distribution The elec-tron energy was calibrated to the theoretical energies of C-like and N-like DR resonances takenfrom [22] The photons were detected with a high purity germanium x-ray detector and their num-ber in the energy region of then = 2 rarr n = 1 transitions (around 13 keV) was projected on theelectron energy axis cf figure1 Raising the voltage on the central drift tube the energy resolutionof the DR resonances improves significantly Figure3 shows the evolution of the resolution in de-pendence on the offset voltage of the central drift tube In a3-dimensional representation photoncounts for the C-like K-LL DR resonances are displayed as a function of electron beam energy andphoton energy Resonances that are not resolved by the classical measuring technique are clearlyseparated now by applying this method of forced evaporativecooling
The resolution progresses to values markedly smaller than the energy distribution of the un-compensated electron beam in our case down to 15 eV for an electron beam space charge potentialof 32 eV (cf figure3) This leads to an excellent resolution parameterR down to 046 indicating aminimal radial movement area for the ions and simultaneously to a high space charge compensa-tion of more than 50 The cooling is so effective that all theions are confined inside the electronbeam and thus the method further uses the high ion productionrate for space charge compensa-tion minimizing the electron energy spread Although good absolute energy resolutions have beenachieved in some EBITs [15] due to their individual device specifications non of thesemeasure-ments had resolved the compared resonances to values smaller than those corresponding to thespecific electron beam space charge widths (cf figure2)
5 Conclusion and outlook
The method described above mdash utilyzing forced evaporative cooling in an EBIT mdash improves forDR measurements the relative resolution represented by theresolution parameterR = ∆Eexpemiddot∆Vsp (eq (22)) by a factor of 4 to 20 (cf figure2) The advantage of the forced cooling technique
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Axial potential Radial potential
a)
b)
4 cm axial
trap length
resolution with
e-beam dillution
50 microm
e-beam diameter
resolution with
evaporative cooling
Figure 4 Illustration of the two methods for resolution improvement a) standard technique applying e-beam dilution and b) forced axial evaporative cooling technique with dense electron impact Axial andradial potentials and their changes are schematically displayed (left and right side respectively) For case a)the space charge potential is reduced by e-current reduction without touching the axial potentials (see redrarr blue curves) For case b) high e-current and space charge arenot changed however the axial potentialwell is reduced allowing forced evaporative cooling and thus concentrating the ions of interest radially to areduced volume (see redrarr blue curves the vertical two-sided arrows display the change in resolution)
introduced for resolution improvement over the previouslyused standard method of space chargeminimizing by electron beam dilution is summarized in figure4 (b and a respectively) For thestandard method (figure4a) only strong resonances can be measured due to the lack of intensity andthis only at a sparce charge limited resolution In contrastwith the forced axial evaporative coolingtechnique (figure4b) using dense electron impact faint structures are accessible at high resolutionA first result achieved in the Heidelberg-EBIT by means of this method is the evidence of KL-LLLtrielectronic recombination in highly charged krypton ions [22] This method can be utilized inother EBITs too The forced evaporative cooling techniqueapplied offers new opportunities instudying DR or other processes with high resolution and thisfor high resonance energies too
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References
[1] Z Harman et alBenchmarking high-field few-electron correlation and QED contributions in Hg75+
to Hg78+ ions II Theory Phys RevA 73 (2006) 052711
[2] AJ Gonzalez Martinez et alState-Selective Quantum Interference Observed in the Recombinationof Highly Charged Hg75+78+ Mercury Ions in an Electron Beam Ion TrapPhys Rev Lett94 (2005) 203201
[3] C Brandau et alIsotope Shift in the Dielectronic Recombination of Three-ElectronANd57+Phys Rev Lett100 (2008) 073201
[4] M Bitter et alSpectra of heliumlike krypton from Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor plasmasPhys Rev Lett71 (1993) 1007
[5] K Widmann et alStudies of He-like krypton for use in determining electron and ion temperatures invery-high-temperature plasmas Rev Sci Instrum66 (1995) 761
[6] D Nikolic et alDielectronic recombination resonances in Na8+ Phys RevA 70 (2004) 062723
[7] MA Levine RE Marrs JR Henderson DA Knapp and MB SchneiderThe Electron Beam IonTrap a New Instrument for Atomic Physics Measurements Phys ScriptaT 22 (1988) 157
[8] DA Knapp et alDielectronic recombination of heliumlike ions Phys RevA 47 (1993) 2039
[9] BM Penetrante et alEvolution of ion-charge-state distributions in an electron-beam ion trapPhys RevA 43 (1991) 4861
[10] K WidmannHigh-Resolution Spectroscopic Diagnostics of very High-Temperature Plasmas in theHard X-ray Regime PhD Thesis US Department of Energy Lawrence Livermore NationalLaboratory (1999)
[11] XLu et alNumerical simulation of the charge balance and temperatureevolution in an electronbeam ion trap Phys Rev ST12 (2009) 014401
[12] G HerrmannOptical Theory of Thermal Velocity Effects in Cylindrical Electron BeamsJ Appl Phys29 (1958) 127
[13] T Fuchs et alChannel-specific dielectronic recombination of highly charged kryptonPhys RevA 58 (1998) 4518
[14] R Radtke et alMeasurement of the radiative cooling rates for high-ionization species of kryptonusing an electron beam ion trap Phys RevE 61 (2000) 1966
[15] M Schmidt et alReport on the current developments and experiments of the Dresden EBIT SystemJ Phys Conf Ser72 (2007) 012020
[16] Z Hu et alMeasurement of the KLL Dielectronic Recombination Resonances in He-like to C-like KrIons Chin Phys Lett26 (2009) 033401
[17] JR Crespo Lopez-Urrutia et alOptimization of the charge state distribution of the ion beamextracted from an EBIT by dielectronic recombination Rev Sci Instrum75 (2004) 1560
[18] AJ Gonzalez MartınezQuantum interference in the dielectronic recombination ofheavy highlycharged ions PhD Thesis University of Heidelberg (2005)
[19] CE KlotsEvaporative cooling J Chem Phys83 (1985) 5854
[20] BM Penetrante et alEvaporative cooling of highly charged dysprosium ions in anenhancedelectron-beam ion trap Phys RevA 43 (1991) 4873
[21] JR Crespo Lopez-Urrutia et alThe Freiburg Electron Beam Ion TrapSource Project FreEBIT
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Phys ScriptaT 80 (1999) 502
[22] C Beilmann et alIntershell trielectronic recombination with K-shell excitation in Kr30+Phys RevA 80 (2009) 050702
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93 94 95 96
0
500
1000
Inte
nsi
ty (
au)
Electron beam energy (keV)
Be
B C
N
12
13
Photo
n e
ner
gy (
keV
)
Figure 1 KLL DR resonances in the energy range for B- to N-like Kr ions the focus in this work is theinvestigation of C-like ions (marked red region) At the topa two-dimensional intensity plot is shown thespectrum below is a projection on the electron beam energy axis
energies the sub-eV region the resolution in EBIT measurements ie for ions at rest shows athigh resonance energies values of few 10 eV This fact complicates the investigation of weak ef-fects in the high energy region where EBITs preferrably are used In this contribution we discussthe resolution of DR resonances measured in EBITs and present a method to improve the resolutionconsiderably for this kind of measurements
In an EBIT HCIs are produced by electron impact ionization by a dense electron beam com-pressed by the magnetic field of a superconducting magnet The electron beam confines the ions inradial direction by its strong negative space charge The axial confinement is ensured by a trappingpotential applied to a set of in principle three drift tubes around the reaction volume
In DR measurements the fast electrons serve both the needs for production of the ions andas collision partner for the DR process Variing the energy of the electron beam the electrons canrecombine around the resonance with the ions Via energy selective measurement of the photonsradiated during stabilization of the excited ions the recombination is detected an increase ofphotons having the transition energy of the excited state isthe signature for a DR resonance Thiscan be clearly seen by plotting the photon intensity in a two-dimensional representation versuselectron beam energy and photon energy around the DR resonances [8] cf figure1 In the figurethe region around C-like DR resonances in Kr30+ for then = 2rarr n = 1 photon transitions at around13 keV is shown together with the neighbouring B- and N-likesystems
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2 Resolution of DR measurements
The energy resolution of DR resonances in EBIT measurementsis dominated by the space chargeof the electron beam represented by the space charge potential [9]
Vsp(r) =Ie
4πε0vemiddot
(
rre
)2+ ln
(
rerdt
)2minus1 for r le re
2ln(
rrdt
)
for r ge re
(21)
Consequently the space charge potential of an electron beam with a currentIe and a radiusre
depends on the distancer to the axis of the beam inside a drift tube with radiusrdt Accordingto the number and charge state of the stored ions this potential is partially compensated leadingto an effective space charge potentialVeff(r) = Vsp(r) middot f The compensation factorf is given byf = sumqnqq middot nminus1
e wherenq represents the number of ions with a positive charge stateq andne
stands for the number of negative electrons [10] This compensation is difficult to estimate due tothe required knowledge of the exact charge state distribution of the ions and their quantity in theEBIT both depending on operational parameters (see also [11]) Moreover also ions of the residualgas contribute to the compensation additionally complicating the modelling for the space chargecompensation
The energy of the electrons is defined by the accelerating potentials at the drift tubes reducedby the effective space charge Accordingly the electrons have different energies concerning differ-ent distances to the beam axis despite seeing the same applied accelerating potentials Since onlythese potentials can be controlled and measured the actualenergy distribution of the electronsdominates the measured resolution at the resonance energies
Beyond current and electron energy the space charge dependson device-specific parameterslike the radius of the drift tubes and the radius of the electron beam that is again governed bythe compressing magnetic field and specifications of the electron gun [12] There are differentresolutions achieved in various EBITs built for diverse scientific needs In order to discuss theachieved resolution device independently we define a resolution parameterR as ratio between theFWHM (full width at half maximum) of the measured resonance∆Eexp and the calculated energydifference inside the electron beam caused by the uncompensated space charge potential difference∆VSP between the beam axis and the edge of the electron beam
R=∆Eexp
emiddot∆VSP(22)
For the radius of the electron beam we use for convenience here the Herrmann radius [12]
3 Electron energy resolution improvement
An optimal absolute resolution can be achieved by limiting the movement of the ions to a minimalaxial volume so that they are only hit by electrons nearest to the electron beam axis The naturalvolume where ions can be confined to is that of the electron beam itself because the ions areproduced in the whole beam volume To minimize the kinetic energy and thus the movement of theions the temperature development of the ions has to be considered in detail According to [9] theions are heated by impact with the electrons of the beam and bycollisions with other ions wherebydue to the loss of energetic ions in axial and radial direction the ions are cooled
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01
1
10
[13]
[14]
[15]
[16]
[17]
[18]
this work
Res
olu
tion
par
amet
er R
Measurement
Berlin Heidelberg
Dre
sden
Sh
angh
ai
respective space charge
of the electron beam
Figure 2 Comparison of the resolution parameterR= ∆Eexpemiddot∆Vsp the ratio of the experimental resolution(FWHM) for C-like KLL DR resonances in Kr to the calculated resolution due to the space charge widthof the uncompensated electron beam for several measurements in different EBITs [13ndash18] The differentlaboratories are indicated at the top While measurements using the standard method (diamonds) obtain aratio between 2 and 9 the measurement using forced evaporative cooling reaches a ratio of 046 (red dot)
31 Standard methods for resolution improvement
In previous measurements of DR resonances in EBITs both space charge and heating of ionswere minimized by reducing the electron beam current due to its linear dependence on the electrondensity [9] In particular the space charge potential itself is reduced and consequently also theabsolute energy width of the electron beam depending linearly on the beam current (eq (21)) Uti-lizing this space charge minimizing strategy resolution parametersR between 2 and 9 have beenreached for measurements of KLL DR resonances in krypton used for comparison here cf figure2mdash for further illustration of the method see also below figure4a This implies that the ion cloud oc-cupies obviously a bigger volume than the electron beam itself The high R values beyond 1 implythe effective electron beam radius may deviate from the Herrmann radius comprising nominallyonly 80 of the electron beam
The maximal attained space charge reduction by minimizing the electron beam current is lim-ited by different factors A reduction of the electron beam means a considerably less efficient ion-ization of the target gas by electron impact The highest charge states required for measurements ofKLL DR resonances are hardly reachable at low electron beam currents hence the current cannotbe reduced gratuitously Moreover a reduced electron intensity at low beam currents means a lowrecombination rate resulting in weak counting rates on top to the reduced ion density The reduc-tion of the radial space charge potential by lowering the electron current results beside a narrowerenergy width in a weaker confinement of the already sparse ions Hence this leads to a weakerspace charge compensation
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20
30
40
50
Exper
imen
tal
reso
luti
on (
eV)
Offset voltage on central drift tibe (V)
940 945 950
940 945 950
Eγ
Ee
respective space charge
of the electron beam
Figure 3 Improvement of KLL DR resolution (∆Eexp FWHM) in C-like Kr ions by evaporative coolingraising the voltage on the central drift tube the space charge generated rdquonaturalrdquo axial trapping potential iscompensated forcing the escape of the hottest ions in axial direction The diagram shows the reduction ofthe resolution (FWHM) of the first C-like DR resonance([1s2s22p2
12(2p232)2]52) as function of the offset
voltage at the central drift tube ie the positive voltageat the central drift tube with respect to the surroundingones The 3-dimensional illustrations on the top show theseresonances (Eγ asymp 13 keV Ee asymp 945 keV) at30V and 140V offset voltage the intensity for the recombination radiation is displayed as function of photonenergy and electron beam energy
32 Resolution improvement by evaporative cooling
The alternative method presented in this paper is the forcedcooling of the ions The present coolingtechnique opposes the space charge minimizing method applied previously Instead of a reductionof the space charge cooling of the ions by forced evaporation [19] is promoted Here the axialconfinement of the particles is reduced to cool them by the loss of the most energetic ones In [20]a method of evaporative cooling in an EBIT is discussed for the goal of producing the highestcharge states of heavy ions using a cooling gas In contrast to this in the present experimentsthe trap potential was optimized to maximal cooling in such away that the axial confinement wasreduced to a point where just the coldest ions are hold at the bottom of the trap with the objective ofresolution improvement Simultaneously a high electron beam current ofI = 200 mA was chosen toensure both a high ionization and recombination efficiency of the strongly confined ions in radialdirection With this it is additionally ensured that enoughatoms of the target gas as well as theresidual gas are ionized to reach a maximal compensation of the space charge further minimizingthe energy distribution of the ions
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The axial trap in an EBIT controlling the loss of the hottest ions is generated by positivepotentials at the surrounding drift tubes relative to the central one containing the reaction volumeBy applying equal potentials at all drift tubes there is still a trapping potential due to the dependenceof the space charge potential on the radius of the drift tubes(eq (21)) because in common EBITdesigns the surrounding drift tubes have smaller radii thanthe central one In our case the radiusof the central drift tube isrc = 5 mm where the surrounding ones have a radius ofrs = 15 mm Tocompensate this potential the voltage on the central drifttube was raised to a point where nearly norelaxation photons from DR were detected indicating a totally emptied trap Close to this thesholdthe weak trap is ideal for a strong radial confinement of the coldest ions only
4 Experimental results
To demonstrate the resolution improvement we have examined KLL DR resonances of kryptonin the Heidelberg-EBIT [21] The DR resonances in the energy region for N-like to O-likeDRwhere measured with different offset voltages on the central drift tube ie the positive voltage onthe central drift tube with respect to the surrounding onesThe measurement itself was performedby varying the electron beam energy in sawtooth ramps over the range of the expected resonanceenergies with a ramp velocity of 2 Vs to ensure a quasi-static charge state distribution The elec-tron energy was calibrated to the theoretical energies of C-like and N-like DR resonances takenfrom [22] The photons were detected with a high purity germanium x-ray detector and their num-ber in the energy region of then = 2 rarr n = 1 transitions (around 13 keV) was projected on theelectron energy axis cf figure1 Raising the voltage on the central drift tube the energy resolutionof the DR resonances improves significantly Figure3 shows the evolution of the resolution in de-pendence on the offset voltage of the central drift tube In a3-dimensional representation photoncounts for the C-like K-LL DR resonances are displayed as a function of electron beam energy andphoton energy Resonances that are not resolved by the classical measuring technique are clearlyseparated now by applying this method of forced evaporativecooling
The resolution progresses to values markedly smaller than the energy distribution of the un-compensated electron beam in our case down to 15 eV for an electron beam space charge potentialof 32 eV (cf figure3) This leads to an excellent resolution parameterR down to 046 indicating aminimal radial movement area for the ions and simultaneously to a high space charge compensa-tion of more than 50 The cooling is so effective that all theions are confined inside the electronbeam and thus the method further uses the high ion productionrate for space charge compensa-tion minimizing the electron energy spread Although good absolute energy resolutions have beenachieved in some EBITs [15] due to their individual device specifications non of thesemeasure-ments had resolved the compared resonances to values smaller than those corresponding to thespecific electron beam space charge widths (cf figure2)
5 Conclusion and outlook
The method described above mdash utilyzing forced evaporative cooling in an EBIT mdash improves forDR measurements the relative resolution represented by theresolution parameterR = ∆Eexpemiddot∆Vsp (eq (22)) by a factor of 4 to 20 (cf figure2) The advantage of the forced cooling technique
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Axial potential Radial potential
a)
b)
4 cm axial
trap length
resolution with
e-beam dillution
50 microm
e-beam diameter
resolution with
evaporative cooling
Figure 4 Illustration of the two methods for resolution improvement a) standard technique applying e-beam dilution and b) forced axial evaporative cooling technique with dense electron impact Axial andradial potentials and their changes are schematically displayed (left and right side respectively) For case a)the space charge potential is reduced by e-current reduction without touching the axial potentials (see redrarr blue curves) For case b) high e-current and space charge arenot changed however the axial potentialwell is reduced allowing forced evaporative cooling and thus concentrating the ions of interest radially to areduced volume (see redrarr blue curves the vertical two-sided arrows display the change in resolution)
introduced for resolution improvement over the previouslyused standard method of space chargeminimizing by electron beam dilution is summarized in figure4 (b and a respectively) For thestandard method (figure4a) only strong resonances can be measured due to the lack of intensity andthis only at a sparce charge limited resolution In contrastwith the forced axial evaporative coolingtechnique (figure4b) using dense electron impact faint structures are accessible at high resolutionA first result achieved in the Heidelberg-EBIT by means of this method is the evidence of KL-LLLtrielectronic recombination in highly charged krypton ions [22] This method can be utilized inother EBITs too The forced evaporative cooling techniqueapplied offers new opportunities instudying DR or other processes with high resolution and thisfor high resonance energies too
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References
[1] Z Harman et alBenchmarking high-field few-electron correlation and QED contributions in Hg75+
to Hg78+ ions II Theory Phys RevA 73 (2006) 052711
[2] AJ Gonzalez Martinez et alState-Selective Quantum Interference Observed in the Recombinationof Highly Charged Hg75+78+ Mercury Ions in an Electron Beam Ion TrapPhys Rev Lett94 (2005) 203201
[3] C Brandau et alIsotope Shift in the Dielectronic Recombination of Three-ElectronANd57+Phys Rev Lett100 (2008) 073201
[4] M Bitter et alSpectra of heliumlike krypton from Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor plasmasPhys Rev Lett71 (1993) 1007
[5] K Widmann et alStudies of He-like krypton for use in determining electron and ion temperatures invery-high-temperature plasmas Rev Sci Instrum66 (1995) 761
[6] D Nikolic et alDielectronic recombination resonances in Na8+ Phys RevA 70 (2004) 062723
[7] MA Levine RE Marrs JR Henderson DA Knapp and MB SchneiderThe Electron Beam IonTrap a New Instrument for Atomic Physics Measurements Phys ScriptaT 22 (1988) 157
[8] DA Knapp et alDielectronic recombination of heliumlike ions Phys RevA 47 (1993) 2039
[9] BM Penetrante et alEvolution of ion-charge-state distributions in an electron-beam ion trapPhys RevA 43 (1991) 4861
[10] K WidmannHigh-Resolution Spectroscopic Diagnostics of very High-Temperature Plasmas in theHard X-ray Regime PhD Thesis US Department of Energy Lawrence Livermore NationalLaboratory (1999)
[11] XLu et alNumerical simulation of the charge balance and temperatureevolution in an electronbeam ion trap Phys Rev ST12 (2009) 014401
[12] G HerrmannOptical Theory of Thermal Velocity Effects in Cylindrical Electron BeamsJ Appl Phys29 (1958) 127
[13] T Fuchs et alChannel-specific dielectronic recombination of highly charged kryptonPhys RevA 58 (1998) 4518
[14] R Radtke et alMeasurement of the radiative cooling rates for high-ionization species of kryptonusing an electron beam ion trap Phys RevE 61 (2000) 1966
[15] M Schmidt et alReport on the current developments and experiments of the Dresden EBIT SystemJ Phys Conf Ser72 (2007) 012020
[16] Z Hu et alMeasurement of the KLL Dielectronic Recombination Resonances in He-like to C-like KrIons Chin Phys Lett26 (2009) 033401
[17] JR Crespo Lopez-Urrutia et alOptimization of the charge state distribution of the ion beamextracted from an EBIT by dielectronic recombination Rev Sci Instrum75 (2004) 1560
[18] AJ Gonzalez MartınezQuantum interference in the dielectronic recombination ofheavy highlycharged ions PhD Thesis University of Heidelberg (2005)
[19] CE KlotsEvaporative cooling J Chem Phys83 (1985) 5854
[20] BM Penetrante et alEvaporative cooling of highly charged dysprosium ions in anenhancedelectron-beam ion trap Phys RevA 43 (1991) 4873
[21] JR Crespo Lopez-Urrutia et alThe Freiburg Electron Beam Ion TrapSource Project FreEBIT
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Phys ScriptaT 80 (1999) 502
[22] C Beilmann et alIntershell trielectronic recombination with K-shell excitation in Kr30+Phys RevA 80 (2009) 050702
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2 Resolution of DR measurements
The energy resolution of DR resonances in EBIT measurementsis dominated by the space chargeof the electron beam represented by the space charge potential [9]
Vsp(r) =Ie
4πε0vemiddot
(
rre
)2+ ln
(
rerdt
)2minus1 for r le re
2ln(
rrdt
)
for r ge re
(21)
Consequently the space charge potential of an electron beam with a currentIe and a radiusre
depends on the distancer to the axis of the beam inside a drift tube with radiusrdt Accordingto the number and charge state of the stored ions this potential is partially compensated leadingto an effective space charge potentialVeff(r) = Vsp(r) middot f The compensation factorf is given byf = sumqnqq middot nminus1
e wherenq represents the number of ions with a positive charge stateq andne
stands for the number of negative electrons [10] This compensation is difficult to estimate due tothe required knowledge of the exact charge state distribution of the ions and their quantity in theEBIT both depending on operational parameters (see also [11]) Moreover also ions of the residualgas contribute to the compensation additionally complicating the modelling for the space chargecompensation
The energy of the electrons is defined by the accelerating potentials at the drift tubes reducedby the effective space charge Accordingly the electrons have different energies concerning differ-ent distances to the beam axis despite seeing the same applied accelerating potentials Since onlythese potentials can be controlled and measured the actualenergy distribution of the electronsdominates the measured resolution at the resonance energies
Beyond current and electron energy the space charge dependson device-specific parameterslike the radius of the drift tubes and the radius of the electron beam that is again governed bythe compressing magnetic field and specifications of the electron gun [12] There are differentresolutions achieved in various EBITs built for diverse scientific needs In order to discuss theachieved resolution device independently we define a resolution parameterR as ratio between theFWHM (full width at half maximum) of the measured resonance∆Eexp and the calculated energydifference inside the electron beam caused by the uncompensated space charge potential difference∆VSP between the beam axis and the edge of the electron beam
R=∆Eexp
emiddot∆VSP(22)
For the radius of the electron beam we use for convenience here the Herrmann radius [12]
3 Electron energy resolution improvement
An optimal absolute resolution can be achieved by limiting the movement of the ions to a minimalaxial volume so that they are only hit by electrons nearest to the electron beam axis The naturalvolume where ions can be confined to is that of the electron beam itself because the ions areproduced in the whole beam volume To minimize the kinetic energy and thus the movement of theions the temperature development of the ions has to be considered in detail According to [9] theions are heated by impact with the electrons of the beam and bycollisions with other ions wherebydue to the loss of energetic ions in axial and radial direction the ions are cooled
ndash 3 ndash
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01
1
10
[13]
[14]
[15]
[16]
[17]
[18]
this work
Res
olu
tion
par
amet
er R
Measurement
Berlin Heidelberg
Dre
sden
Sh
angh
ai
respective space charge
of the electron beam
Figure 2 Comparison of the resolution parameterR= ∆Eexpemiddot∆Vsp the ratio of the experimental resolution(FWHM) for C-like KLL DR resonances in Kr to the calculated resolution due to the space charge widthof the uncompensated electron beam for several measurements in different EBITs [13ndash18] The differentlaboratories are indicated at the top While measurements using the standard method (diamonds) obtain aratio between 2 and 9 the measurement using forced evaporative cooling reaches a ratio of 046 (red dot)
31 Standard methods for resolution improvement
In previous measurements of DR resonances in EBITs both space charge and heating of ionswere minimized by reducing the electron beam current due to its linear dependence on the electrondensity [9] In particular the space charge potential itself is reduced and consequently also theabsolute energy width of the electron beam depending linearly on the beam current (eq (21)) Uti-lizing this space charge minimizing strategy resolution parametersR between 2 and 9 have beenreached for measurements of KLL DR resonances in krypton used for comparison here cf figure2mdash for further illustration of the method see also below figure4a This implies that the ion cloud oc-cupies obviously a bigger volume than the electron beam itself The high R values beyond 1 implythe effective electron beam radius may deviate from the Herrmann radius comprising nominallyonly 80 of the electron beam
The maximal attained space charge reduction by minimizing the electron beam current is lim-ited by different factors A reduction of the electron beam means a considerably less efficient ion-ization of the target gas by electron impact The highest charge states required for measurements ofKLL DR resonances are hardly reachable at low electron beam currents hence the current cannotbe reduced gratuitously Moreover a reduced electron intensity at low beam currents means a lowrecombination rate resulting in weak counting rates on top to the reduced ion density The reduc-tion of the radial space charge potential by lowering the electron current results beside a narrowerenergy width in a weaker confinement of the already sparse ions Hence this leads to a weakerspace charge compensation
ndash 4 ndash
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30 50 70 90 110 130 15010
20
30
40
50
Exper
imen
tal
reso
luti
on (
eV)
Offset voltage on central drift tibe (V)
940 945 950
940 945 950
Eγ
Ee
respective space charge
of the electron beam
Figure 3 Improvement of KLL DR resolution (∆Eexp FWHM) in C-like Kr ions by evaporative coolingraising the voltage on the central drift tube the space charge generated rdquonaturalrdquo axial trapping potential iscompensated forcing the escape of the hottest ions in axial direction The diagram shows the reduction ofthe resolution (FWHM) of the first C-like DR resonance([1s2s22p2
12(2p232)2]52) as function of the offset
voltage at the central drift tube ie the positive voltageat the central drift tube with respect to the surroundingones The 3-dimensional illustrations on the top show theseresonances (Eγ asymp 13 keV Ee asymp 945 keV) at30V and 140V offset voltage the intensity for the recombination radiation is displayed as function of photonenergy and electron beam energy
32 Resolution improvement by evaporative cooling
The alternative method presented in this paper is the forcedcooling of the ions The present coolingtechnique opposes the space charge minimizing method applied previously Instead of a reductionof the space charge cooling of the ions by forced evaporation [19] is promoted Here the axialconfinement of the particles is reduced to cool them by the loss of the most energetic ones In [20]a method of evaporative cooling in an EBIT is discussed for the goal of producing the highestcharge states of heavy ions using a cooling gas In contrast to this in the present experimentsthe trap potential was optimized to maximal cooling in such away that the axial confinement wasreduced to a point where just the coldest ions are hold at the bottom of the trap with the objective ofresolution improvement Simultaneously a high electron beam current ofI = 200 mA was chosen toensure both a high ionization and recombination efficiency of the strongly confined ions in radialdirection With this it is additionally ensured that enoughatoms of the target gas as well as theresidual gas are ionized to reach a maximal compensation of the space charge further minimizingthe energy distribution of the ions
ndash 5 ndash
2010 JINST 5 C09002
The axial trap in an EBIT controlling the loss of the hottest ions is generated by positivepotentials at the surrounding drift tubes relative to the central one containing the reaction volumeBy applying equal potentials at all drift tubes there is still a trapping potential due to the dependenceof the space charge potential on the radius of the drift tubes(eq (21)) because in common EBITdesigns the surrounding drift tubes have smaller radii thanthe central one In our case the radiusof the central drift tube isrc = 5 mm where the surrounding ones have a radius ofrs = 15 mm Tocompensate this potential the voltage on the central drifttube was raised to a point where nearly norelaxation photons from DR were detected indicating a totally emptied trap Close to this thesholdthe weak trap is ideal for a strong radial confinement of the coldest ions only
4 Experimental results
To demonstrate the resolution improvement we have examined KLL DR resonances of kryptonin the Heidelberg-EBIT [21] The DR resonances in the energy region for N-like to O-likeDRwhere measured with different offset voltages on the central drift tube ie the positive voltage onthe central drift tube with respect to the surrounding onesThe measurement itself was performedby varying the electron beam energy in sawtooth ramps over the range of the expected resonanceenergies with a ramp velocity of 2 Vs to ensure a quasi-static charge state distribution The elec-tron energy was calibrated to the theoretical energies of C-like and N-like DR resonances takenfrom [22] The photons were detected with a high purity germanium x-ray detector and their num-ber in the energy region of then = 2 rarr n = 1 transitions (around 13 keV) was projected on theelectron energy axis cf figure1 Raising the voltage on the central drift tube the energy resolutionof the DR resonances improves significantly Figure3 shows the evolution of the resolution in de-pendence on the offset voltage of the central drift tube In a3-dimensional representation photoncounts for the C-like K-LL DR resonances are displayed as a function of electron beam energy andphoton energy Resonances that are not resolved by the classical measuring technique are clearlyseparated now by applying this method of forced evaporativecooling
The resolution progresses to values markedly smaller than the energy distribution of the un-compensated electron beam in our case down to 15 eV for an electron beam space charge potentialof 32 eV (cf figure3) This leads to an excellent resolution parameterR down to 046 indicating aminimal radial movement area for the ions and simultaneously to a high space charge compensa-tion of more than 50 The cooling is so effective that all theions are confined inside the electronbeam and thus the method further uses the high ion productionrate for space charge compensa-tion minimizing the electron energy spread Although good absolute energy resolutions have beenachieved in some EBITs [15] due to their individual device specifications non of thesemeasure-ments had resolved the compared resonances to values smaller than those corresponding to thespecific electron beam space charge widths (cf figure2)
5 Conclusion and outlook
The method described above mdash utilyzing forced evaporative cooling in an EBIT mdash improves forDR measurements the relative resolution represented by theresolution parameterR = ∆Eexpemiddot∆Vsp (eq (22)) by a factor of 4 to 20 (cf figure2) The advantage of the forced cooling technique
ndash 6 ndash
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Axial potential Radial potential
a)
b)
4 cm axial
trap length
resolution with
e-beam dillution
50 microm
e-beam diameter
resolution with
evaporative cooling
Figure 4 Illustration of the two methods for resolution improvement a) standard technique applying e-beam dilution and b) forced axial evaporative cooling technique with dense electron impact Axial andradial potentials and their changes are schematically displayed (left and right side respectively) For case a)the space charge potential is reduced by e-current reduction without touching the axial potentials (see redrarr blue curves) For case b) high e-current and space charge arenot changed however the axial potentialwell is reduced allowing forced evaporative cooling and thus concentrating the ions of interest radially to areduced volume (see redrarr blue curves the vertical two-sided arrows display the change in resolution)
introduced for resolution improvement over the previouslyused standard method of space chargeminimizing by electron beam dilution is summarized in figure4 (b and a respectively) For thestandard method (figure4a) only strong resonances can be measured due to the lack of intensity andthis only at a sparce charge limited resolution In contrastwith the forced axial evaporative coolingtechnique (figure4b) using dense electron impact faint structures are accessible at high resolutionA first result achieved in the Heidelberg-EBIT by means of this method is the evidence of KL-LLLtrielectronic recombination in highly charged krypton ions [22] This method can be utilized inother EBITs too The forced evaporative cooling techniqueapplied offers new opportunities instudying DR or other processes with high resolution and thisfor high resonance energies too
ndash 7 ndash
2010 JINST 5 C09002
References
[1] Z Harman et alBenchmarking high-field few-electron correlation and QED contributions in Hg75+
to Hg78+ ions II Theory Phys RevA 73 (2006) 052711
[2] AJ Gonzalez Martinez et alState-Selective Quantum Interference Observed in the Recombinationof Highly Charged Hg75+78+ Mercury Ions in an Electron Beam Ion TrapPhys Rev Lett94 (2005) 203201
[3] C Brandau et alIsotope Shift in the Dielectronic Recombination of Three-ElectronANd57+Phys Rev Lett100 (2008) 073201
[4] M Bitter et alSpectra of heliumlike krypton from Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor plasmasPhys Rev Lett71 (1993) 1007
[5] K Widmann et alStudies of He-like krypton for use in determining electron and ion temperatures invery-high-temperature plasmas Rev Sci Instrum66 (1995) 761
[6] D Nikolic et alDielectronic recombination resonances in Na8+ Phys RevA 70 (2004) 062723
[7] MA Levine RE Marrs JR Henderson DA Knapp and MB SchneiderThe Electron Beam IonTrap a New Instrument for Atomic Physics Measurements Phys ScriptaT 22 (1988) 157
[8] DA Knapp et alDielectronic recombination of heliumlike ions Phys RevA 47 (1993) 2039
[9] BM Penetrante et alEvolution of ion-charge-state distributions in an electron-beam ion trapPhys RevA 43 (1991) 4861
[10] K WidmannHigh-Resolution Spectroscopic Diagnostics of very High-Temperature Plasmas in theHard X-ray Regime PhD Thesis US Department of Energy Lawrence Livermore NationalLaboratory (1999)
[11] XLu et alNumerical simulation of the charge balance and temperatureevolution in an electronbeam ion trap Phys Rev ST12 (2009) 014401
[12] G HerrmannOptical Theory of Thermal Velocity Effects in Cylindrical Electron BeamsJ Appl Phys29 (1958) 127
[13] T Fuchs et alChannel-specific dielectronic recombination of highly charged kryptonPhys RevA 58 (1998) 4518
[14] R Radtke et alMeasurement of the radiative cooling rates for high-ionization species of kryptonusing an electron beam ion trap Phys RevE 61 (2000) 1966
[15] M Schmidt et alReport on the current developments and experiments of the Dresden EBIT SystemJ Phys Conf Ser72 (2007) 012020
[16] Z Hu et alMeasurement of the KLL Dielectronic Recombination Resonances in He-like to C-like KrIons Chin Phys Lett26 (2009) 033401
[17] JR Crespo Lopez-Urrutia et alOptimization of the charge state distribution of the ion beamextracted from an EBIT by dielectronic recombination Rev Sci Instrum75 (2004) 1560
[18] AJ Gonzalez MartınezQuantum interference in the dielectronic recombination ofheavy highlycharged ions PhD Thesis University of Heidelberg (2005)
[19] CE KlotsEvaporative cooling J Chem Phys83 (1985) 5854
[20] BM Penetrante et alEvaporative cooling of highly charged dysprosium ions in anenhancedelectron-beam ion trap Phys RevA 43 (1991) 4873
[21] JR Crespo Lopez-Urrutia et alThe Freiburg Electron Beam Ion TrapSource Project FreEBIT
ndash 8 ndash
2010 JINST 5 C09002
Phys ScriptaT 80 (1999) 502
[22] C Beilmann et alIntershell trielectronic recombination with K-shell excitation in Kr30+Phys RevA 80 (2009) 050702
ndash 9 ndash
2010 JINST 5 C09002
01
1
10
[13]
[14]
[15]
[16]
[17]
[18]
this work
Res
olu
tion
par
amet
er R
Measurement
Berlin Heidelberg
Dre
sden
Sh
angh
ai
respective space charge
of the electron beam
Figure 2 Comparison of the resolution parameterR= ∆Eexpemiddot∆Vsp the ratio of the experimental resolution(FWHM) for C-like KLL DR resonances in Kr to the calculated resolution due to the space charge widthof the uncompensated electron beam for several measurements in different EBITs [13ndash18] The differentlaboratories are indicated at the top While measurements using the standard method (diamonds) obtain aratio between 2 and 9 the measurement using forced evaporative cooling reaches a ratio of 046 (red dot)
31 Standard methods for resolution improvement
In previous measurements of DR resonances in EBITs both space charge and heating of ionswere minimized by reducing the electron beam current due to its linear dependence on the electrondensity [9] In particular the space charge potential itself is reduced and consequently also theabsolute energy width of the electron beam depending linearly on the beam current (eq (21)) Uti-lizing this space charge minimizing strategy resolution parametersR between 2 and 9 have beenreached for measurements of KLL DR resonances in krypton used for comparison here cf figure2mdash for further illustration of the method see also below figure4a This implies that the ion cloud oc-cupies obviously a bigger volume than the electron beam itself The high R values beyond 1 implythe effective electron beam radius may deviate from the Herrmann radius comprising nominallyonly 80 of the electron beam
The maximal attained space charge reduction by minimizing the electron beam current is lim-ited by different factors A reduction of the electron beam means a considerably less efficient ion-ization of the target gas by electron impact The highest charge states required for measurements ofKLL DR resonances are hardly reachable at low electron beam currents hence the current cannotbe reduced gratuitously Moreover a reduced electron intensity at low beam currents means a lowrecombination rate resulting in weak counting rates on top to the reduced ion density The reduc-tion of the radial space charge potential by lowering the electron current results beside a narrowerenergy width in a weaker confinement of the already sparse ions Hence this leads to a weakerspace charge compensation
ndash 4 ndash
2010 JINST 5 C09002
30 50 70 90 110 130 15010
20
30
40
50
Exper
imen
tal
reso
luti
on (
eV)
Offset voltage on central drift tibe (V)
940 945 950
940 945 950
Eγ
Ee
respective space charge
of the electron beam
Figure 3 Improvement of KLL DR resolution (∆Eexp FWHM) in C-like Kr ions by evaporative coolingraising the voltage on the central drift tube the space charge generated rdquonaturalrdquo axial trapping potential iscompensated forcing the escape of the hottest ions in axial direction The diagram shows the reduction ofthe resolution (FWHM) of the first C-like DR resonance([1s2s22p2
12(2p232)2]52) as function of the offset
voltage at the central drift tube ie the positive voltageat the central drift tube with respect to the surroundingones The 3-dimensional illustrations on the top show theseresonances (Eγ asymp 13 keV Ee asymp 945 keV) at30V and 140V offset voltage the intensity for the recombination radiation is displayed as function of photonenergy and electron beam energy
32 Resolution improvement by evaporative cooling
The alternative method presented in this paper is the forcedcooling of the ions The present coolingtechnique opposes the space charge minimizing method applied previously Instead of a reductionof the space charge cooling of the ions by forced evaporation [19] is promoted Here the axialconfinement of the particles is reduced to cool them by the loss of the most energetic ones In [20]a method of evaporative cooling in an EBIT is discussed for the goal of producing the highestcharge states of heavy ions using a cooling gas In contrast to this in the present experimentsthe trap potential was optimized to maximal cooling in such away that the axial confinement wasreduced to a point where just the coldest ions are hold at the bottom of the trap with the objective ofresolution improvement Simultaneously a high electron beam current ofI = 200 mA was chosen toensure both a high ionization and recombination efficiency of the strongly confined ions in radialdirection With this it is additionally ensured that enoughatoms of the target gas as well as theresidual gas are ionized to reach a maximal compensation of the space charge further minimizingthe energy distribution of the ions
ndash 5 ndash
2010 JINST 5 C09002
The axial trap in an EBIT controlling the loss of the hottest ions is generated by positivepotentials at the surrounding drift tubes relative to the central one containing the reaction volumeBy applying equal potentials at all drift tubes there is still a trapping potential due to the dependenceof the space charge potential on the radius of the drift tubes(eq (21)) because in common EBITdesigns the surrounding drift tubes have smaller radii thanthe central one In our case the radiusof the central drift tube isrc = 5 mm where the surrounding ones have a radius ofrs = 15 mm Tocompensate this potential the voltage on the central drifttube was raised to a point where nearly norelaxation photons from DR were detected indicating a totally emptied trap Close to this thesholdthe weak trap is ideal for a strong radial confinement of the coldest ions only
4 Experimental results
To demonstrate the resolution improvement we have examined KLL DR resonances of kryptonin the Heidelberg-EBIT [21] The DR resonances in the energy region for N-like to O-likeDRwhere measured with different offset voltages on the central drift tube ie the positive voltage onthe central drift tube with respect to the surrounding onesThe measurement itself was performedby varying the electron beam energy in sawtooth ramps over the range of the expected resonanceenergies with a ramp velocity of 2 Vs to ensure a quasi-static charge state distribution The elec-tron energy was calibrated to the theoretical energies of C-like and N-like DR resonances takenfrom [22] The photons were detected with a high purity germanium x-ray detector and their num-ber in the energy region of then = 2 rarr n = 1 transitions (around 13 keV) was projected on theelectron energy axis cf figure1 Raising the voltage on the central drift tube the energy resolutionof the DR resonances improves significantly Figure3 shows the evolution of the resolution in de-pendence on the offset voltage of the central drift tube In a3-dimensional representation photoncounts for the C-like K-LL DR resonances are displayed as a function of electron beam energy andphoton energy Resonances that are not resolved by the classical measuring technique are clearlyseparated now by applying this method of forced evaporativecooling
The resolution progresses to values markedly smaller than the energy distribution of the un-compensated electron beam in our case down to 15 eV for an electron beam space charge potentialof 32 eV (cf figure3) This leads to an excellent resolution parameterR down to 046 indicating aminimal radial movement area for the ions and simultaneously to a high space charge compensa-tion of more than 50 The cooling is so effective that all theions are confined inside the electronbeam and thus the method further uses the high ion productionrate for space charge compensa-tion minimizing the electron energy spread Although good absolute energy resolutions have beenachieved in some EBITs [15] due to their individual device specifications non of thesemeasure-ments had resolved the compared resonances to values smaller than those corresponding to thespecific electron beam space charge widths (cf figure2)
5 Conclusion and outlook
The method described above mdash utilyzing forced evaporative cooling in an EBIT mdash improves forDR measurements the relative resolution represented by theresolution parameterR = ∆Eexpemiddot∆Vsp (eq (22)) by a factor of 4 to 20 (cf figure2) The advantage of the forced cooling technique
ndash 6 ndash
2010 JINST 5 C09002
Axial potential Radial potential
a)
b)
4 cm axial
trap length
resolution with
e-beam dillution
50 microm
e-beam diameter
resolution with
evaporative cooling
Figure 4 Illustration of the two methods for resolution improvement a) standard technique applying e-beam dilution and b) forced axial evaporative cooling technique with dense electron impact Axial andradial potentials and their changes are schematically displayed (left and right side respectively) For case a)the space charge potential is reduced by e-current reduction without touching the axial potentials (see redrarr blue curves) For case b) high e-current and space charge arenot changed however the axial potentialwell is reduced allowing forced evaporative cooling and thus concentrating the ions of interest radially to areduced volume (see redrarr blue curves the vertical two-sided arrows display the change in resolution)
introduced for resolution improvement over the previouslyused standard method of space chargeminimizing by electron beam dilution is summarized in figure4 (b and a respectively) For thestandard method (figure4a) only strong resonances can be measured due to the lack of intensity andthis only at a sparce charge limited resolution In contrastwith the forced axial evaporative coolingtechnique (figure4b) using dense electron impact faint structures are accessible at high resolutionA first result achieved in the Heidelberg-EBIT by means of this method is the evidence of KL-LLLtrielectronic recombination in highly charged krypton ions [22] This method can be utilized inother EBITs too The forced evaporative cooling techniqueapplied offers new opportunities instudying DR or other processes with high resolution and thisfor high resonance energies too
ndash 7 ndash
2010 JINST 5 C09002
References
[1] Z Harman et alBenchmarking high-field few-electron correlation and QED contributions in Hg75+
to Hg78+ ions II Theory Phys RevA 73 (2006) 052711
[2] AJ Gonzalez Martinez et alState-Selective Quantum Interference Observed in the Recombinationof Highly Charged Hg75+78+ Mercury Ions in an Electron Beam Ion TrapPhys Rev Lett94 (2005) 203201
[3] C Brandau et alIsotope Shift in the Dielectronic Recombination of Three-ElectronANd57+Phys Rev Lett100 (2008) 073201
[4] M Bitter et alSpectra of heliumlike krypton from Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor plasmasPhys Rev Lett71 (1993) 1007
[5] K Widmann et alStudies of He-like krypton for use in determining electron and ion temperatures invery-high-temperature plasmas Rev Sci Instrum66 (1995) 761
[6] D Nikolic et alDielectronic recombination resonances in Na8+ Phys RevA 70 (2004) 062723
[7] MA Levine RE Marrs JR Henderson DA Knapp and MB SchneiderThe Electron Beam IonTrap a New Instrument for Atomic Physics Measurements Phys ScriptaT 22 (1988) 157
[8] DA Knapp et alDielectronic recombination of heliumlike ions Phys RevA 47 (1993) 2039
[9] BM Penetrante et alEvolution of ion-charge-state distributions in an electron-beam ion trapPhys RevA 43 (1991) 4861
[10] K WidmannHigh-Resolution Spectroscopic Diagnostics of very High-Temperature Plasmas in theHard X-ray Regime PhD Thesis US Department of Energy Lawrence Livermore NationalLaboratory (1999)
[11] XLu et alNumerical simulation of the charge balance and temperatureevolution in an electronbeam ion trap Phys Rev ST12 (2009) 014401
[12] G HerrmannOptical Theory of Thermal Velocity Effects in Cylindrical Electron BeamsJ Appl Phys29 (1958) 127
[13] T Fuchs et alChannel-specific dielectronic recombination of highly charged kryptonPhys RevA 58 (1998) 4518
[14] R Radtke et alMeasurement of the radiative cooling rates for high-ionization species of kryptonusing an electron beam ion trap Phys RevE 61 (2000) 1966
[15] M Schmidt et alReport on the current developments and experiments of the Dresden EBIT SystemJ Phys Conf Ser72 (2007) 012020
[16] Z Hu et alMeasurement of the KLL Dielectronic Recombination Resonances in He-like to C-like KrIons Chin Phys Lett26 (2009) 033401
[17] JR Crespo Lopez-Urrutia et alOptimization of the charge state distribution of the ion beamextracted from an EBIT by dielectronic recombination Rev Sci Instrum75 (2004) 1560
[18] AJ Gonzalez MartınezQuantum interference in the dielectronic recombination ofheavy highlycharged ions PhD Thesis University of Heidelberg (2005)
[19] CE KlotsEvaporative cooling J Chem Phys83 (1985) 5854
[20] BM Penetrante et alEvaporative cooling of highly charged dysprosium ions in anenhancedelectron-beam ion trap Phys RevA 43 (1991) 4873
[21] JR Crespo Lopez-Urrutia et alThe Freiburg Electron Beam Ion TrapSource Project FreEBIT
ndash 8 ndash
2010 JINST 5 C09002
Phys ScriptaT 80 (1999) 502
[22] C Beilmann et alIntershell trielectronic recombination with K-shell excitation in Kr30+Phys RevA 80 (2009) 050702
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2010 JINST 5 C09002
30 50 70 90 110 130 15010
20
30
40
50
Exper
imen
tal
reso
luti
on (
eV)
Offset voltage on central drift tibe (V)
940 945 950
940 945 950
Eγ
Ee
respective space charge
of the electron beam
Figure 3 Improvement of KLL DR resolution (∆Eexp FWHM) in C-like Kr ions by evaporative coolingraising the voltage on the central drift tube the space charge generated rdquonaturalrdquo axial trapping potential iscompensated forcing the escape of the hottest ions in axial direction The diagram shows the reduction ofthe resolution (FWHM) of the first C-like DR resonance([1s2s22p2
12(2p232)2]52) as function of the offset
voltage at the central drift tube ie the positive voltageat the central drift tube with respect to the surroundingones The 3-dimensional illustrations on the top show theseresonances (Eγ asymp 13 keV Ee asymp 945 keV) at30V and 140V offset voltage the intensity for the recombination radiation is displayed as function of photonenergy and electron beam energy
32 Resolution improvement by evaporative cooling
The alternative method presented in this paper is the forcedcooling of the ions The present coolingtechnique opposes the space charge minimizing method applied previously Instead of a reductionof the space charge cooling of the ions by forced evaporation [19] is promoted Here the axialconfinement of the particles is reduced to cool them by the loss of the most energetic ones In [20]a method of evaporative cooling in an EBIT is discussed for the goal of producing the highestcharge states of heavy ions using a cooling gas In contrast to this in the present experimentsthe trap potential was optimized to maximal cooling in such away that the axial confinement wasreduced to a point where just the coldest ions are hold at the bottom of the trap with the objective ofresolution improvement Simultaneously a high electron beam current ofI = 200 mA was chosen toensure both a high ionization and recombination efficiency of the strongly confined ions in radialdirection With this it is additionally ensured that enoughatoms of the target gas as well as theresidual gas are ionized to reach a maximal compensation of the space charge further minimizingthe energy distribution of the ions
ndash 5 ndash
2010 JINST 5 C09002
The axial trap in an EBIT controlling the loss of the hottest ions is generated by positivepotentials at the surrounding drift tubes relative to the central one containing the reaction volumeBy applying equal potentials at all drift tubes there is still a trapping potential due to the dependenceof the space charge potential on the radius of the drift tubes(eq (21)) because in common EBITdesigns the surrounding drift tubes have smaller radii thanthe central one In our case the radiusof the central drift tube isrc = 5 mm where the surrounding ones have a radius ofrs = 15 mm Tocompensate this potential the voltage on the central drifttube was raised to a point where nearly norelaxation photons from DR were detected indicating a totally emptied trap Close to this thesholdthe weak trap is ideal for a strong radial confinement of the coldest ions only
4 Experimental results
To demonstrate the resolution improvement we have examined KLL DR resonances of kryptonin the Heidelberg-EBIT [21] The DR resonances in the energy region for N-like to O-likeDRwhere measured with different offset voltages on the central drift tube ie the positive voltage onthe central drift tube with respect to the surrounding onesThe measurement itself was performedby varying the electron beam energy in sawtooth ramps over the range of the expected resonanceenergies with a ramp velocity of 2 Vs to ensure a quasi-static charge state distribution The elec-tron energy was calibrated to the theoretical energies of C-like and N-like DR resonances takenfrom [22] The photons were detected with a high purity germanium x-ray detector and their num-ber in the energy region of then = 2 rarr n = 1 transitions (around 13 keV) was projected on theelectron energy axis cf figure1 Raising the voltage on the central drift tube the energy resolutionof the DR resonances improves significantly Figure3 shows the evolution of the resolution in de-pendence on the offset voltage of the central drift tube In a3-dimensional representation photoncounts for the C-like K-LL DR resonances are displayed as a function of electron beam energy andphoton energy Resonances that are not resolved by the classical measuring technique are clearlyseparated now by applying this method of forced evaporativecooling
The resolution progresses to values markedly smaller than the energy distribution of the un-compensated electron beam in our case down to 15 eV for an electron beam space charge potentialof 32 eV (cf figure3) This leads to an excellent resolution parameterR down to 046 indicating aminimal radial movement area for the ions and simultaneously to a high space charge compensa-tion of more than 50 The cooling is so effective that all theions are confined inside the electronbeam and thus the method further uses the high ion productionrate for space charge compensa-tion minimizing the electron energy spread Although good absolute energy resolutions have beenachieved in some EBITs [15] due to their individual device specifications non of thesemeasure-ments had resolved the compared resonances to values smaller than those corresponding to thespecific electron beam space charge widths (cf figure2)
5 Conclusion and outlook
The method described above mdash utilyzing forced evaporative cooling in an EBIT mdash improves forDR measurements the relative resolution represented by theresolution parameterR = ∆Eexpemiddot∆Vsp (eq (22)) by a factor of 4 to 20 (cf figure2) The advantage of the forced cooling technique
ndash 6 ndash
2010 JINST 5 C09002
Axial potential Radial potential
a)
b)
4 cm axial
trap length
resolution with
e-beam dillution
50 microm
e-beam diameter
resolution with
evaporative cooling
Figure 4 Illustration of the two methods for resolution improvement a) standard technique applying e-beam dilution and b) forced axial evaporative cooling technique with dense electron impact Axial andradial potentials and their changes are schematically displayed (left and right side respectively) For case a)the space charge potential is reduced by e-current reduction without touching the axial potentials (see redrarr blue curves) For case b) high e-current and space charge arenot changed however the axial potentialwell is reduced allowing forced evaporative cooling and thus concentrating the ions of interest radially to areduced volume (see redrarr blue curves the vertical two-sided arrows display the change in resolution)
introduced for resolution improvement over the previouslyused standard method of space chargeminimizing by electron beam dilution is summarized in figure4 (b and a respectively) For thestandard method (figure4a) only strong resonances can be measured due to the lack of intensity andthis only at a sparce charge limited resolution In contrastwith the forced axial evaporative coolingtechnique (figure4b) using dense electron impact faint structures are accessible at high resolutionA first result achieved in the Heidelberg-EBIT by means of this method is the evidence of KL-LLLtrielectronic recombination in highly charged krypton ions [22] This method can be utilized inother EBITs too The forced evaporative cooling techniqueapplied offers new opportunities instudying DR or other processes with high resolution and thisfor high resonance energies too
ndash 7 ndash
2010 JINST 5 C09002
References
[1] Z Harman et alBenchmarking high-field few-electron correlation and QED contributions in Hg75+
to Hg78+ ions II Theory Phys RevA 73 (2006) 052711
[2] AJ Gonzalez Martinez et alState-Selective Quantum Interference Observed in the Recombinationof Highly Charged Hg75+78+ Mercury Ions in an Electron Beam Ion TrapPhys Rev Lett94 (2005) 203201
[3] C Brandau et alIsotope Shift in the Dielectronic Recombination of Three-ElectronANd57+Phys Rev Lett100 (2008) 073201
[4] M Bitter et alSpectra of heliumlike krypton from Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor plasmasPhys Rev Lett71 (1993) 1007
[5] K Widmann et alStudies of He-like krypton for use in determining electron and ion temperatures invery-high-temperature plasmas Rev Sci Instrum66 (1995) 761
[6] D Nikolic et alDielectronic recombination resonances in Na8+ Phys RevA 70 (2004) 062723
[7] MA Levine RE Marrs JR Henderson DA Knapp and MB SchneiderThe Electron Beam IonTrap a New Instrument for Atomic Physics Measurements Phys ScriptaT 22 (1988) 157
[8] DA Knapp et alDielectronic recombination of heliumlike ions Phys RevA 47 (1993) 2039
[9] BM Penetrante et alEvolution of ion-charge-state distributions in an electron-beam ion trapPhys RevA 43 (1991) 4861
[10] K WidmannHigh-Resolution Spectroscopic Diagnostics of very High-Temperature Plasmas in theHard X-ray Regime PhD Thesis US Department of Energy Lawrence Livermore NationalLaboratory (1999)
[11] XLu et alNumerical simulation of the charge balance and temperatureevolution in an electronbeam ion trap Phys Rev ST12 (2009) 014401
[12] G HerrmannOptical Theory of Thermal Velocity Effects in Cylindrical Electron BeamsJ Appl Phys29 (1958) 127
[13] T Fuchs et alChannel-specific dielectronic recombination of highly charged kryptonPhys RevA 58 (1998) 4518
[14] R Radtke et alMeasurement of the radiative cooling rates for high-ionization species of kryptonusing an electron beam ion trap Phys RevE 61 (2000) 1966
[15] M Schmidt et alReport on the current developments and experiments of the Dresden EBIT SystemJ Phys Conf Ser72 (2007) 012020
[16] Z Hu et alMeasurement of the KLL Dielectronic Recombination Resonances in He-like to C-like KrIons Chin Phys Lett26 (2009) 033401
[17] JR Crespo Lopez-Urrutia et alOptimization of the charge state distribution of the ion beamextracted from an EBIT by dielectronic recombination Rev Sci Instrum75 (2004) 1560
[18] AJ Gonzalez MartınezQuantum interference in the dielectronic recombination ofheavy highlycharged ions PhD Thesis University of Heidelberg (2005)
[19] CE KlotsEvaporative cooling J Chem Phys83 (1985) 5854
[20] BM Penetrante et alEvaporative cooling of highly charged dysprosium ions in anenhancedelectron-beam ion trap Phys RevA 43 (1991) 4873
[21] JR Crespo Lopez-Urrutia et alThe Freiburg Electron Beam Ion TrapSource Project FreEBIT
ndash 8 ndash
2010 JINST 5 C09002
Phys ScriptaT 80 (1999) 502
[22] C Beilmann et alIntershell trielectronic recombination with K-shell excitation in Kr30+Phys RevA 80 (2009) 050702
ndash 9 ndash
2010 JINST 5 C09002
The axial trap in an EBIT controlling the loss of the hottest ions is generated by positivepotentials at the surrounding drift tubes relative to the central one containing the reaction volumeBy applying equal potentials at all drift tubes there is still a trapping potential due to the dependenceof the space charge potential on the radius of the drift tubes(eq (21)) because in common EBITdesigns the surrounding drift tubes have smaller radii thanthe central one In our case the radiusof the central drift tube isrc = 5 mm where the surrounding ones have a radius ofrs = 15 mm Tocompensate this potential the voltage on the central drifttube was raised to a point where nearly norelaxation photons from DR were detected indicating a totally emptied trap Close to this thesholdthe weak trap is ideal for a strong radial confinement of the coldest ions only
4 Experimental results
To demonstrate the resolution improvement we have examined KLL DR resonances of kryptonin the Heidelberg-EBIT [21] The DR resonances in the energy region for N-like to O-likeDRwhere measured with different offset voltages on the central drift tube ie the positive voltage onthe central drift tube with respect to the surrounding onesThe measurement itself was performedby varying the electron beam energy in sawtooth ramps over the range of the expected resonanceenergies with a ramp velocity of 2 Vs to ensure a quasi-static charge state distribution The elec-tron energy was calibrated to the theoretical energies of C-like and N-like DR resonances takenfrom [22] The photons were detected with a high purity germanium x-ray detector and their num-ber in the energy region of then = 2 rarr n = 1 transitions (around 13 keV) was projected on theelectron energy axis cf figure1 Raising the voltage on the central drift tube the energy resolutionof the DR resonances improves significantly Figure3 shows the evolution of the resolution in de-pendence on the offset voltage of the central drift tube In a3-dimensional representation photoncounts for the C-like K-LL DR resonances are displayed as a function of electron beam energy andphoton energy Resonances that are not resolved by the classical measuring technique are clearlyseparated now by applying this method of forced evaporativecooling
The resolution progresses to values markedly smaller than the energy distribution of the un-compensated electron beam in our case down to 15 eV for an electron beam space charge potentialof 32 eV (cf figure3) This leads to an excellent resolution parameterR down to 046 indicating aminimal radial movement area for the ions and simultaneously to a high space charge compensa-tion of more than 50 The cooling is so effective that all theions are confined inside the electronbeam and thus the method further uses the high ion productionrate for space charge compensa-tion minimizing the electron energy spread Although good absolute energy resolutions have beenachieved in some EBITs [15] due to their individual device specifications non of thesemeasure-ments had resolved the compared resonances to values smaller than those corresponding to thespecific electron beam space charge widths (cf figure2)
5 Conclusion and outlook
The method described above mdash utilyzing forced evaporative cooling in an EBIT mdash improves forDR measurements the relative resolution represented by theresolution parameterR = ∆Eexpemiddot∆Vsp (eq (22)) by a factor of 4 to 20 (cf figure2) The advantage of the forced cooling technique
ndash 6 ndash
2010 JINST 5 C09002
Axial potential Radial potential
a)
b)
4 cm axial
trap length
resolution with
e-beam dillution
50 microm
e-beam diameter
resolution with
evaporative cooling
Figure 4 Illustration of the two methods for resolution improvement a) standard technique applying e-beam dilution and b) forced axial evaporative cooling technique with dense electron impact Axial andradial potentials and their changes are schematically displayed (left and right side respectively) For case a)the space charge potential is reduced by e-current reduction without touching the axial potentials (see redrarr blue curves) For case b) high e-current and space charge arenot changed however the axial potentialwell is reduced allowing forced evaporative cooling and thus concentrating the ions of interest radially to areduced volume (see redrarr blue curves the vertical two-sided arrows display the change in resolution)
introduced for resolution improvement over the previouslyused standard method of space chargeminimizing by electron beam dilution is summarized in figure4 (b and a respectively) For thestandard method (figure4a) only strong resonances can be measured due to the lack of intensity andthis only at a sparce charge limited resolution In contrastwith the forced axial evaporative coolingtechnique (figure4b) using dense electron impact faint structures are accessible at high resolutionA first result achieved in the Heidelberg-EBIT by means of this method is the evidence of KL-LLLtrielectronic recombination in highly charged krypton ions [22] This method can be utilized inother EBITs too The forced evaporative cooling techniqueapplied offers new opportunities instudying DR or other processes with high resolution and thisfor high resonance energies too
ndash 7 ndash
2010 JINST 5 C09002
References
[1] Z Harman et alBenchmarking high-field few-electron correlation and QED contributions in Hg75+
to Hg78+ ions II Theory Phys RevA 73 (2006) 052711
[2] AJ Gonzalez Martinez et alState-Selective Quantum Interference Observed in the Recombinationof Highly Charged Hg75+78+ Mercury Ions in an Electron Beam Ion TrapPhys Rev Lett94 (2005) 203201
[3] C Brandau et alIsotope Shift in the Dielectronic Recombination of Three-ElectronANd57+Phys Rev Lett100 (2008) 073201
[4] M Bitter et alSpectra of heliumlike krypton from Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor plasmasPhys Rev Lett71 (1993) 1007
[5] K Widmann et alStudies of He-like krypton for use in determining electron and ion temperatures invery-high-temperature plasmas Rev Sci Instrum66 (1995) 761
[6] D Nikolic et alDielectronic recombination resonances in Na8+ Phys RevA 70 (2004) 062723
[7] MA Levine RE Marrs JR Henderson DA Knapp and MB SchneiderThe Electron Beam IonTrap a New Instrument for Atomic Physics Measurements Phys ScriptaT 22 (1988) 157
[8] DA Knapp et alDielectronic recombination of heliumlike ions Phys RevA 47 (1993) 2039
[9] BM Penetrante et alEvolution of ion-charge-state distributions in an electron-beam ion trapPhys RevA 43 (1991) 4861
[10] K WidmannHigh-Resolution Spectroscopic Diagnostics of very High-Temperature Plasmas in theHard X-ray Regime PhD Thesis US Department of Energy Lawrence Livermore NationalLaboratory (1999)
[11] XLu et alNumerical simulation of the charge balance and temperatureevolution in an electronbeam ion trap Phys Rev ST12 (2009) 014401
[12] G HerrmannOptical Theory of Thermal Velocity Effects in Cylindrical Electron BeamsJ Appl Phys29 (1958) 127
[13] T Fuchs et alChannel-specific dielectronic recombination of highly charged kryptonPhys RevA 58 (1998) 4518
[14] R Radtke et alMeasurement of the radiative cooling rates for high-ionization species of kryptonusing an electron beam ion trap Phys RevE 61 (2000) 1966
[15] M Schmidt et alReport on the current developments and experiments of the Dresden EBIT SystemJ Phys Conf Ser72 (2007) 012020
[16] Z Hu et alMeasurement of the KLL Dielectronic Recombination Resonances in He-like to C-like KrIons Chin Phys Lett26 (2009) 033401
[17] JR Crespo Lopez-Urrutia et alOptimization of the charge state distribution of the ion beamextracted from an EBIT by dielectronic recombination Rev Sci Instrum75 (2004) 1560
[18] AJ Gonzalez MartınezQuantum interference in the dielectronic recombination ofheavy highlycharged ions PhD Thesis University of Heidelberg (2005)
[19] CE KlotsEvaporative cooling J Chem Phys83 (1985) 5854
[20] BM Penetrante et alEvaporative cooling of highly charged dysprosium ions in anenhancedelectron-beam ion trap Phys RevA 43 (1991) 4873
[21] JR Crespo Lopez-Urrutia et alThe Freiburg Electron Beam Ion TrapSource Project FreEBIT
ndash 8 ndash
2010 JINST 5 C09002
Phys ScriptaT 80 (1999) 502
[22] C Beilmann et alIntershell trielectronic recombination with K-shell excitation in Kr30+Phys RevA 80 (2009) 050702
ndash 9 ndash
2010 JINST 5 C09002
Axial potential Radial potential
a)
b)
4 cm axial
trap length
resolution with
e-beam dillution
50 microm
e-beam diameter
resolution with
evaporative cooling
Figure 4 Illustration of the two methods for resolution improvement a) standard technique applying e-beam dilution and b) forced axial evaporative cooling technique with dense electron impact Axial andradial potentials and their changes are schematically displayed (left and right side respectively) For case a)the space charge potential is reduced by e-current reduction without touching the axial potentials (see redrarr blue curves) For case b) high e-current and space charge arenot changed however the axial potentialwell is reduced allowing forced evaporative cooling and thus concentrating the ions of interest radially to areduced volume (see redrarr blue curves the vertical two-sided arrows display the change in resolution)
introduced for resolution improvement over the previouslyused standard method of space chargeminimizing by electron beam dilution is summarized in figure4 (b and a respectively) For thestandard method (figure4a) only strong resonances can be measured due to the lack of intensity andthis only at a sparce charge limited resolution In contrastwith the forced axial evaporative coolingtechnique (figure4b) using dense electron impact faint structures are accessible at high resolutionA first result achieved in the Heidelberg-EBIT by means of this method is the evidence of KL-LLLtrielectronic recombination in highly charged krypton ions [22] This method can be utilized inother EBITs too The forced evaporative cooling techniqueapplied offers new opportunities instudying DR or other processes with high resolution and thisfor high resonance energies too
ndash 7 ndash
2010 JINST 5 C09002
References
[1] Z Harman et alBenchmarking high-field few-electron correlation and QED contributions in Hg75+
to Hg78+ ions II Theory Phys RevA 73 (2006) 052711
[2] AJ Gonzalez Martinez et alState-Selective Quantum Interference Observed in the Recombinationof Highly Charged Hg75+78+ Mercury Ions in an Electron Beam Ion TrapPhys Rev Lett94 (2005) 203201
[3] C Brandau et alIsotope Shift in the Dielectronic Recombination of Three-ElectronANd57+Phys Rev Lett100 (2008) 073201
[4] M Bitter et alSpectra of heliumlike krypton from Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor plasmasPhys Rev Lett71 (1993) 1007
[5] K Widmann et alStudies of He-like krypton for use in determining electron and ion temperatures invery-high-temperature plasmas Rev Sci Instrum66 (1995) 761
[6] D Nikolic et alDielectronic recombination resonances in Na8+ Phys RevA 70 (2004) 062723
[7] MA Levine RE Marrs JR Henderson DA Knapp and MB SchneiderThe Electron Beam IonTrap a New Instrument for Atomic Physics Measurements Phys ScriptaT 22 (1988) 157
[8] DA Knapp et alDielectronic recombination of heliumlike ions Phys RevA 47 (1993) 2039
[9] BM Penetrante et alEvolution of ion-charge-state distributions in an electron-beam ion trapPhys RevA 43 (1991) 4861
[10] K WidmannHigh-Resolution Spectroscopic Diagnostics of very High-Temperature Plasmas in theHard X-ray Regime PhD Thesis US Department of Energy Lawrence Livermore NationalLaboratory (1999)
[11] XLu et alNumerical simulation of the charge balance and temperatureevolution in an electronbeam ion trap Phys Rev ST12 (2009) 014401
[12] G HerrmannOptical Theory of Thermal Velocity Effects in Cylindrical Electron BeamsJ Appl Phys29 (1958) 127
[13] T Fuchs et alChannel-specific dielectronic recombination of highly charged kryptonPhys RevA 58 (1998) 4518
[14] R Radtke et alMeasurement of the radiative cooling rates for high-ionization species of kryptonusing an electron beam ion trap Phys RevE 61 (2000) 1966
[15] M Schmidt et alReport on the current developments and experiments of the Dresden EBIT SystemJ Phys Conf Ser72 (2007) 012020
[16] Z Hu et alMeasurement of the KLL Dielectronic Recombination Resonances in He-like to C-like KrIons Chin Phys Lett26 (2009) 033401
[17] JR Crespo Lopez-Urrutia et alOptimization of the charge state distribution of the ion beamextracted from an EBIT by dielectronic recombination Rev Sci Instrum75 (2004) 1560
[18] AJ Gonzalez MartınezQuantum interference in the dielectronic recombination ofheavy highlycharged ions PhD Thesis University of Heidelberg (2005)
[19] CE KlotsEvaporative cooling J Chem Phys83 (1985) 5854
[20] BM Penetrante et alEvaporative cooling of highly charged dysprosium ions in anenhancedelectron-beam ion trap Phys RevA 43 (1991) 4873
[21] JR Crespo Lopez-Urrutia et alThe Freiburg Electron Beam Ion TrapSource Project FreEBIT
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[22] C Beilmann et alIntershell trielectronic recombination with K-shell excitation in Kr30+Phys RevA 80 (2009) 050702
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