• Mass Spectrometry Letters
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• v.6 no.4
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• pp.112-115
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• 2015

In this article, we examine the influences of Ne and He buffer gases under confined Ar⁺ ion cloud in a homemade Paul ion trap in various pressures and confinement times. The trap is of small size (r₀ = 1 cm) operating in a radio frequency (rf) voltage only mode, and has limited accuracy of 13 V. The electron impact and ionization process take place inside the trap and a Faraday cup has been used for the detection. Although the experimental results show that the Ar⁺ ion FWHM with Ne buffer gas is wider than the He buffer gas at the same pressure (1×10^-1 mbar) and confinement time is about 1000 μs, nevertheless, a faster cooling was found with He buffer gas with 500 μs. ultimetly, the obtanied results performed an average cloud tempertures reduced from 1777 K to 448.3 K for Ne (1000 μs) and from 1787.9 K to 469.4 K for He (500 μs)