Static mass spectrometers of a new type using electric and magnetic fields which are homogeneous in Euler’ terms. I. General principle and single-stage systems
T12N4
A.S. Berdnikov, I.A. Averin, Yu.K. Golikov
Static mass spectrometers are masked by more modern and more fashionable mass spectrometers. However, their potentiality is far from exhausted. One of the principle advantages of the static mass spectrometers is that they are the only type of mass spectrometers with the “duty cycle” equal to 100 %. However, to implement this potential advantage some static mass analyzer should work in a spectrographic mode when a wide range of masses is measured per a single act of the measuring. From an optical point of view, the systems with good spectrometric properties and the systems with good spectrographic properties are seriously different. The design of spectrographs as compared with the design of spectrometers results in quite new optical problems to be solved and, hence, in quite new approaches to their solution. The fields which are the homogeneous ones in Euler terms are the example of useful instruments used for the design of the spectrographs. The paper considers the prospects of the usage of the fields which are homogeneous in Euler terms for the design of static mass spectrometers of a new type.
