Simulated ion trajectory and induced signal in ion cyclotron resonance ion traps. Effect of ion initial axial position on ion coherence, induced signal, and radial or z ejection in a cubic trap.
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY 1994;
5:807-813. [PMID:
24222028 DOI:
10.1016/1044-0305(94)87003-9]
[Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/1993] [Revised: 04/22/1994] [Accepted: 04/25/1994] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
Abstract
The effects of ion initial axial position on coherence of ion motion, induced ion cyclotron resonance (ICR) signal. and radial and z ejection have been evaluated by numerical simulation for a cubic Fourier transform-ion cyclotron resonance ion trap. For a given initial ion cyclotron phase and radius, ions of different initial z position are shown to be excited to significantly different ion cyclotron radii (and ultimately radially ejected at significantly different excitation amplitude-duration products). Ion initial z displacement from the trap midplane affects observed ICR signal magnitude in two ways: (1) for the same postexcitation cyclotron radius, an ion with larger initial z displacement induces a smaller ICR signal and (2) an ion with larger initial z displacement is excited to a smaller cyclotron radius. We also evaluate the induced ICR signal as a function of excitation amplitude-duration product for spatially uniform or Gaussian ion initial z distributions. In general, if the excitation waveform contains components at frequency, 2 ωz or (ω+ + 2 ωz, in which ωz is the axial C"trapping") oscillation frequency, then ejection occurs axially. However, the resulting excitation amplitude-duration product for such axial ejection is significantly higher (factor of, ∼ 4) than that required for radial ejection (at ω+) for ions of small initial radius. The present results offer the first explanation of how, even if the ion is initially at rest on the z axis (i.e., zero excitation electric field amplitude on the z axis), z ejection (axial ejection) may nevertheless occur if the excitation waveform contains frequency components at ω+ + 2ωz and/or 2w z Namely, our simulations reveal that off-resonant excitation pushes ions away from the z axis, after which the ions are exposed to z excitation and eventual z ejection.
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