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The design of an “electrodynamic accelerator” for ultraheavy molecular ions with masses of order 106 Da is analyzed. It is shown that these ions can be efficiently accelerated to energies of hundreds of kilo-electronvolts over lengths no greater than 20 cm by using a sequence of voltage pulses with amplitudes of several kilovolts and microsecond durations. This acceleration allows ultraheavy molecular ions to be efficiently recorded using conventional secondary electron multipliers or multichannel plates.
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Pis’ma Zh. Tekh. Fiz. 24, 84–88 (July 26, 1998)
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Sekatskii, S.K. Electrodynamic acceleration of ultraheavy molecular ions. Tech. Phys. Lett. 24, 577–578 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1134/1.1262202
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1134/1.1262202