An ion-guide technique for on-line isotope separation coupled with a recoil-type beam separator

Abstract The efficiency of an ion-guide isotope separator on-line has been shown to increase to a great extent when only nuclear reaction products of interest are guided into a gas region of the ion-guide system after separating them from beam particles using a gas-filled recoil beam separator. An effective volume to the present ion-guide system is larger than in usual, indicating that this method is very effective in heavy-ion reactions yielding high recoil velocities for reaction products.