9th RGA Users Group Meeting
10 February 2010 | Daresbury Science and Innovation Centre
Programme
Session 1: Walton Rooms A&B
Chairman | Joe Herbert (Chair RGA9 & VS-1)
10:00 Opening Comments
Joe Herbert – Vacuum Science Group Leader, ASTeC, STFC
10:10 Welcome to Daresbury Science and Innovation Campus
Prof Mike Poole, Director of ASTeC, STFC
10:20 INVITED TALK
Calibration of Quadrupole Mass Spectrometer (QMS) for gas flow measurement by pressure impulses
Dr. Janez Šetina, Institute of Metals and Technology, Ljubljana, Slovenia
11:00 Drinks Break / Exhibition
Session 2: Walton Rooms A&B
Chairman | Ron Reid (Consultant)
11:20 Quadrupole RGA – Past, Present, Future
Steve Shannon – SS Scientific)
11:40 Ion Trap Mass Spectrometers: Have They a Future in RGA?
John Todd – School of Physical Sciences, University of Kent
12:00 Applications of a Magnetic Sector Process Mass Spectrometer to the Analysis of Variable Vacuum Samples
Robert Wright – Thermo Fisher Scientific
12:20 Reflections on Quadrupole Simulation
Jonathan Batey – Consultant in mass spectrometry, ion optics and vacuum technology
12:40 LUNCH / Exhibition
Session 3: Walton Rooms A&B
Chairman | Steve Taylor (Liverpool University)
14:00 Reducing the Uncertainties in Fusion Fuelling at JET
Tony Coyne – Euratom / UKAEA Culham Science Centre
14:20 The role of RGAs in the selection and testing of materials for space applications
Giles Case – RAL Space Science & Technology Department
14:40 Residual Gas Analysis in Accelerators, working with different operating systems (Windows, Linux and Unix)
Pfeiffer Vacuum – Andreas Schopphoff)
15:00 Performance Characteristics of a New Wide Range, Fast Settling Electrometer Design for a Residual Gas Analysis Mass Spectrometer
MKS Spectra – Phil Shaw
15:20 Drinks Break / Exhibition
15:40 TOURS – Meet in Walton Rooms
16:40 – 19:00 EXHIBITION RECEPTION
POSTERS – throughout the day
Miniature Ion Trap Technology for Portable Mass Spectrometry Applications
A.T. Clare, B.Brkic, N.France and S. Taylor – Department of Electrical Engineering and Electronics, University of Liverpool
Performance of an RGA with a Transverse Magnetic Field Applied to the Mass Filter
S. Sarfaraz Uddin, B. Brkic, J.R. Gibson, J. Sreekumar and S.Taylor – University of Liverpool
Fourier Transform Operating Mode for a 3D Quadrupole Ion Trap: Fourier Transform Quadrupole Ion Trap Mass Spectrometer (FTQIT/MS)
Y. Zerega, A. Janulyte, M. Carette, C. Reynard & J. Andre – University de Provence
