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MS: Fachverband Massenspektrometrie

MS 3: Ion Traps, Ion Storage Rings, Molecules, Clusters, Decays and Reactions

MS 3.5: Talk

Monday, February 29, 2016, 17:00–17:15, f128

MAc, a software package for hardware control, data acquisition and online analysis for multiple-reflection time-of-flight mass spectrometers (MR-TOF-MS) — •Julian Bergmann¹, Alexander Pikhtelev², Timo Dickel^1,3, Hans Geissel^1,3, Wolfgang Plass^1,3, Christoph Scheidenberger^1,3, Samuel Ayet San Andrés^1,3, Jens Ebert¹, Christine Hornung¹, Christian Jesch¹, Wayne Lippert¹, Christian Lotze¹, Moritz Pascal Reiter¹, and Ann-Kathrin Rink¹ — ¹JLU Giessen, Deutschland — ²Institute of Energy Problems of Chemical Physics, RAS, Moscow, Russia — ³GSI Darmstadt, Deutschland

MAc (Mass Acquisition) is a software package designed for half-automated hardware control, data acquisition and online data analysis for MR-TOF-MS. It offers multi-dimensional automatic hardware parameter optimization e.g. electrode voltage optimization regarding transport efficiency or mass resolving power. Mass resolving powers in excess of 400.000 have been reached. MAc provides support for multiple data acquisition hardware (TDCs and ADCs), online filter features (peak detection, data smoothing etc.) and long-term measurements (days). Automated methods for peak detection and chemical compound identification are provided. Furthermore methods have been developed to visualize long-term signal stability and to correct flight time deviations due to electric field drifts by time-resolved calibration. Applications of MAc’s main features for on- and offline data analysis will be presented.