title: A new setup for the investigation of swift heavy ion induced particle emission and surface modifications.
abstract: The irradiation with fast ions with kinetic energies of >10 MeV leads to the deposition of a high amount of energy along their trajectory (up to several ten keV/nm). The energy is mainly transferred to the electronic subsystem and induces different secondary processes of excitations, which result in significant material modifications. A new setup to study these ion induced effects on surfaces will be described in this paper. The setup combines a variable irradiation chamber with different techniques of surface characterizations like scanning probe microscopy, time-of-flight secondary ion, and neutral mass spectrometry, as well as low energy electron diffraction under ultra high vacuum conditions, and is mounted at a beamline of the universal linear accelerator (UNILAC) of the GSI facility in Darmstadt, Germany. Here, samples can be irradiated with high-energy ions with a total kinetic energy up to several GeVs under different angles of incidence. Our setup enables the preparation and in situ analysis of different types of sample systems ranging from metals to insulators. Time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry enables us to study the chemical composition of the surface, while scanning probe microscopy allows a detailed view into the local electrical and morphological conditions of the sample surface down to atomic scales. With the new setup, particle emission during irradiation as well as persistent modifications of the surface after irradiation can thus be studied. We present first data obtained with the new setup, including a novel measuring protocol for time-of-flight mass spectrometry with the GSI UNILAC accelerator.
authors.affiliation: Fakultät für Physik, Universität Duisburg-Essen and Cenide, 47057 Duisburg, Germany.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Meinerzhagen
authors.affiliation: Fakultät für Physik, Universität Duisburg-Essen and Cenide, 47057 Duisburg, Germany.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Breuer
authors.affiliation: Fakultät für Physik, Universität Duisburg-Essen and Cenide, 47057 Duisburg, Germany.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Bukowska
authors.affiliation: GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, 64291 Darmstadt, Germany.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bender
authors.affiliation: GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, 64291 Darmstadt, Germany.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Severin
authors.affiliation: Fakultät für Physik, Universität Duisburg-Essen and Cenide, 47057 Duisburg, Germany.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Herder
authors.affiliation: CIMAP (CEA-CNRS-ENSICAEN-UCN), 14070 Caen Cedex 5, France.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Lebius
authors.affiliation: Fakultät für Physik, Universität Duisburg-Essen and Cenide, 47057 Duisburg, Germany.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Schleberger
authors.affiliation: Fakultät für Physik, Universität Duisburg-Essen and Cenide, 47057 Duisburg, Germany.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Wucher