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9th RGA Users Meeting

10th February 2010, Daresbury Laboratory

 

Registration essential (free) at www.vacuum-uk.org

PROGRAMME

09:00   REGISTRATION

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 measurements

           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