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Interface for a four-sector mass spectrometer with a dual-purpose collision cell: High transmission at low to
1Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland Baltimore County, 5401 Wilkens Avenue, 21228, Baltimore, MD.
Abstract:
A new interface system that consists of an ion decelerator, a floating collision cell-chemical ionization ion source, and an ion extractor was designed and installed in the third field-free region of a four-sector tandem mass spectrometer. Important features include the use of cylindrical deceleration lenses and an extraction lens assembly. This new design was found to provide enhancement of ion transmission at low to intermediate ion kinetic energies (3 eV to 1 keV) compared with the standard collision cell design. Collision-induced dissociation experiments from 3 eV to 10 keV and ion-molecule reactions of mass-selected ions can be performed conveniently. A second, grounded, collision cell is located after the extraction lenses, which allows MS(4) experiments to be carried out via the normal linked (B/E) scan function in MS2. Incorporation of chemical ionization capability into the electrically isolated collision cell makes it possible to carry out neutralization chemical-reionization mass spectrometry.
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