title: Modified Thomson spectrometer design for high energy, multi-species ion sources.
abstract: A modification to the standard Thomson parabola spectrometer is discussed, which is designed to measure high energy (tens of MeV/nucleon), broad bandwidth spectra of multi-species ions accelerated by intense laser plasma interactions. It is proposed to implement a pair of extended, trapezoidal shaped electric plates, which will not only resolve ion traces at high energies, but will also retain the lower energy part of the spectrum. While a longer (along the axis of the undeflected ion beam direction) electric plate design provides effective charge state separation at the high energy end of the spectrum, the proposed new trapezoidal shape will enable the low energy ions to reach the detector, which would have been clipped or blocked by simply extending the rectangular plates to enhance the electrostatic deflection.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Plasma Physics, School of Mathematics and Physics, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast BT7 1NN, United Kingdom.
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authors.affiliation: Centre for Plasma Physics, School of Mathematics and Physics, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast BT7 1NN, United Kingdom.
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authors.lastname: Kar
authors.affiliation: Centre for Plasma Physics, School of Mathematics and Physics, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast BT7 1NN, United Kingdom.
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authors.affiliation: Centre for Plasma Physics, School of Mathematics and Physics, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast BT7 1NN, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: H
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authors.lastname: Ahmed
authors.affiliation: Institut für Laser-und Plasmaphysik, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf, Germany.
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authors.lastname: Cerchez
authors.affiliation: Instituto de Fusión Nuclear UPM, Jose Gutierrez Abascal 2, E28006 Madrid, Spain.
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authors.lastname: Fernandez
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, SUPA, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow G4 0NG, United Kingdom.
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authors.affiliation: Central Laser Facility, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, Oxfordshire OX11 0QX, United Kingdom.
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authors.initials: JS
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authors.affiliation: Centre for Plasma Physics, School of Mathematics and Physics, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast BT7 1NN, United Kingdom.
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authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Hanton
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, SUPA, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow G4 0NG, United Kingdom.
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authors.initials: DA
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authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, SUPA, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow G4 0NG, United Kingdom.
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authors.affiliation: Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom.
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authors.affiliation: Central Laser Facility, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, Oxfordshire OX11 0QX, United Kingdom.
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authors.affiliation: Instituto de Fusión Nuclear UPM, Jose Gutierrez Abascal 2, E28006 Madrid, Spain.
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authors.affiliation: Dipartimento SBAI, Università di Roma "La Sapienza," 00161 Rome, Italy.
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authors.affiliation: Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: M
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authors.lastname: Streeter
authors.affiliation: Institut für Laser-und Plasmaphysik, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf, Germany.
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authors.lastname: Swantusch
authors.affiliation: Institut für Laser-und Plasmaphysik, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf, Germany.
authors.forename: O
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authors.affiliation: Centre for Plasma Physics, School of Mathematics and Physics, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast BT7 1NN, United Kingdom.
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authors.initials: M
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authors.affiliation: Centre for Plasma Physics, School of Mathematics and Physics, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast BT7 1NN, United Kingdom.
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