Fund Project:Project supported by the National Key R&D Program of China (Grant No. 2017YFA0402300) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 11804347)
Received Date:12 June 2020
Accepted Date:03 July 2020
Available Online:14 October 2020
Published Online:20 October 2020
Abstract:In the studies of fragmentation processes of molecules induced by extreme ultraviolet photons, intense laser fields, or charged particles, kinetic energy release (KER) is a key physical parameter. It can reveal the electronic states of the parent molecular ion, and provide an insight into the molecular structures and the dissociation dynamics. Therefore, it is essential to obtain the accurate KER spectrum for studying the fragmentation process of molecules. However, in the experiments using reaction microscope, experimental parameters such as the time-of-flight (TOF), the voltage of the TOF spectrometer and the detector image of the fragments have significant influence on the accuracy of KER determination. In this work, by taking the two-body fragmentation process of CO2+ → C+ + O+ induced by 108 keV/u Ne8+ impact on CO molecules as a prototype, we introduce two methods to accurately calibrate the reconstructed KER spectrum. The first method is to employ two-dimensional momentum spectra of C+ ions obtained by slicing the momentum sphere. The parameters are correctly calibrated when the circular distribution of the two-dimensional ion momentum image is restored. The second method is to use the correlation spectra of the KER as a function of the emission angle of the C+ ions to calibrate the experimental parameters, the calibration meets the required level only when the linear dependence of the emission angle on the KER is fulfilled. Then, calibrated KER spectrum is obtained for the dissociation process. By fitting the peak dissociated from the $^{3}\Sigma^{+}$ state of CO2+ in the KER spectrum, the energy resolution is estimated at 0.24 eV under these experimental conditions. Although these two methods can be used to accurately calibrate the reconstructed KER spectrum, the second calibration method does not require particularly high data statistics, and is suitable for analyzing the processes with lower reaction cross section. Furthermore, this method is convenient for debugging the parameters. Both methods are reliable for parameter calibration and guarantee high accuracy KER for molecular fragmentation experiments in future. Keywords:reconstruction of momentum/ calibration/ kinetic energy release/ reaction microscope
通过该方法, 可以获得碎片离子的绝对飞行时间t. 图3为修正后的所有碎片离子的飞行时间谱, 从图中可以鉴别出各个离子的飞行时间, 原则上根据(3)式就可以计算TOF方向上的动量$ P_{x} $. 图 3 Ne8+离子与CO作用后碎片离子的飞行时间谱 Figure3. TOF spectrum of fragment ions produced by Ne8+ interaction with CO