Title: Interaction of solar wind ions with thin carbon foils - Calibration of time-of-fight spectrometers

Authors: M. Gonin, A. Bürgi, M. Oetliker, and P. Bochsler

Reference: Proc. of the first SOHO workshop on coronal streamers, coronal loops, and coronal and solar wind composition, Annapolis, Maryland, USA, ESA SP-348, 381-384, 1992.

Abstract:
With the KAFKA (german: Karbon Folien Kollisions Analysator) experiment we study charge exchange loss and angular scattering of the solar wind ions in thin (1 - 10 µg/cm²) carbon foils. Such foils are extensively used in Time-of-Flight (TOF) mass spectrometry. So far we have investigated the properties of H, He, B, C, N, O, F, Ne, Na, Al, Si, S, Cl, Ar, K, Ti, Fe, and Ni in the 0.5 -5 keV/u energy range.

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