LEIF – Report 2 (European
network HPRI-CT-1999-40012) Low
Energy Ion Beam Facilities 1. Annual LEIF-network meeting 19.-22. October 2000 HMI-Berlin Germany

Report
on the
1.
Annual
meeting
of the
Infrastructure co-operation network
LEIF
‘Low Energy Ion beam Facilities’
HPRI-CT-1999-40012
Content :
I)
organisers comments
II)
activities in the individual projects
III)
LEIF-related fields
IV)
Recommendations of the NMB
V)
Young scientist forum
VI)
Annex
Programme
of the meeting
Poster
presentations
List
of participants
|
-
presentation of user projects (poster session)
-
possible applications of multiply charged ions
-
progress reports concerning the LEIF-projects
-
discussion of subjects linked to the network projects
-
young scientists forum
-
general network managing (NMB-meeting).
The presentation of the low energy ion beam facilities included in addition to the eight LEIF-installations two infrastructures with comparable characteristics. This concerns the installation which is presently being developed at the MPI at Heidelberg (Germany) as well as the infrastructure CIRIL at Caen (France). The scientific programs and the user service,which will be offered by both institutions coincides with the ideas of LEIF and a close co-operation and participation in the LEIF-activities is foreseen the in near future.
One of the objectives of the
annual network meeting concerns the beam time demand and the beam time
attribution to different user groups. As a first step in this direction a
poster session has been organised in which the scientific projects of the
different users and infrastructures have been presented and discussed. The list
of the poster presentations (given in the annex of this report) shows that one
part of the activities is devoted to experimental studies of a large variety of
collision processes and particle interactions. However, another important part
is linked to the development of technical devices.
The conference had been
organised in a conference-specialised centre which facilitated by its
infrastructure a smooth and easy running of the meeting. In particular, the
common places (like central hall, meeting rooms, restaurant or bar) and
side-walks along the nearby lake ensured the possibilities of intensive
discussions. It was encouraging that about one half of the conference
participants came from outside the network. This was in part possible by the
financial LEIF-support which was available for users and experts.
We would like to thank the
participants for their contributions and the stimulating atmosphere which they
helped to create, not to forget the organising team of the HMI.
II) Activities in individual projects
The Saturday afternoon
session was designated to discuss the
activities and the work being made in the six individual projects which have
been defined in the LEIF-network. The
session was limited to LEIF-members in
order to allow for an intensive discussion. A detailed analysis of the progress
which has been achieved so far will be given in the annual report (February
2001). Therefore, only a short summary will be given here.
Project 1: Information
policy
The main objective of this
project concerns the design and the actualisation of a LEIF-homepage.
Concerning this task the following points have been discussed:
The actual address of our LEIF-homepage www.physics.uoc/~leif/LEIF will be changed into the more direct
address: www.leif-network.org. It will be hosted by France Telecom and will
be available early 2001.
The homepages of the different principal contractors
which will be linked to the central page are in progress. One is operational,
several others are ready to be connected. An effort is still necessary
concerning the design of the project-related pages.
The installation of a ‘Poster Gallery’ on the web has
been discussed. It has been decided that several talks which have been
presented at the Berlin meeting and which are available in an appropriate
format shall be published on the LEIF-homepage. This concerns in particular the
talks on : Quality in basic research, HCIs and diagnostic of comets, Ion
implantation-New possibilities by highly charged Ions?
The practical procedures for creating and circulating
a Newsletter have been discussed. It is planned to start this communication in
2001 with 2 or 3 issues. In order to ensure that a large community is informed,
the Newsletter will be sent out by e-mail in addition to its publication on the LEIF-homepage.
Project 2: Management and quality
A quality meeting has been organised in July
(7.7.2000) in Grenoble, bringing together several members of the LEIF-network
with the representatives of two professional enterprises, which are concerned
with the application of quality standards (see summary-report on the web-page).
The general outcome of this meeting was the conclusion, that it is not
realistic to apply existing quality standards (ISO-9001 norms, etc.) to
fundamental research and to our network. The most promising procedure for
introducing quality in our domain is based on our definition of our
needs, of the methods we want to apply to fulfil these needs and of the quality
criteria which we propose to control the success and the effectiveness of the
proposed methods. This is also in the spirit of the new ISO 9000:2000 norm.
As in the field of basic research a working group of
CEA/DSM (R. Duc, A. Muret) has already
established a referential of quality, we have initiated a close
collaboration with this group in order
to create a quality referential for the network LEIF. In order to confront the
community with the concepts of quality a talk about this subject has been
included in the programme of the annual meeting.
One of the main objectives of this project concerns a
centralised beam distribution, which is a difficult goal as existing national
committees are not in favour of the creation of such an institution. Different
possibilities have been discussed in Berlin. As a first step we intend to
organise during the next annual meeting an oral presentation of all beam time demands, which should be
evaluated by a LEIF-committee (not yet defined). It is the task of this
committee to evaluate the proposals, to write a corresponding report and to
give suggestions and recommendations. The final beam distribution will remain
at the existing national committees.
In order to allow for a better planning of future
experiments, standardised methods for measuring ion beam currents with given
emittances have been defined. The corresponding systems are under construction.
Projects 3 to 6
The first step within these 4 projects consisted of
establishing an overview about the actual situation, about the different
systems and the various methods which are applied and used by the community.
For this purpose different inquiries have been sent out to all partners
demanding for the relevant information. The results have been presented at the
Berlin meeting by the project managers, a detailed summary of this work will be
included in the annual report.
In addition to these common initiatives, which have
been defined in the project programme, some project specific decision have been
taken:
On-line access: As a step towards the
necessary standardisation of computer controlled systems operating ion sources
or experimental devices, the software package LabView has been selected. A
corresponding introduction into this system as well as some practical training
courses are to be organised during the next annual meeting.
In a kind of
pilot-project two ECR ion sources will be operated by remote controlling via
the LabView programme. One ion source (HMI-Berlin) is now operational in this
modus, another one (TU-Vienna) is in
the status of development.
Common tools and multi-coincidence detectors / ion beam production / ion beam control and deceleration:
New technical developments concerning the projects 4 to 6 have been discussed in form of invited talks. The subjects include powerful multi-electrode detectors, the development of a ‘warm’ EBIT and the different methods which can be applied to decelerate highly charged ions into the eV-range. In order to proceed further in these fields, several smaller workshops are planned for 2001:
Improvement of
ECR-ion sources (Giessen)
Sources for complex
ions and Traps (Aarhus)
Recent developments
for multi-detectors (Heraklion
or Bielefeld)
Ion beam
deceleration techniques (probably
Heraklion)
III)
LEIF-related
fields
An important objective of LEIF is to open the field of highly charged ions to other areas and to increase the interaction with those fields where these ions can serve for applications or diagnostic purposes. Therefore, several invited talks have been included in the conference programme covering the role which slow, highly charged ions can play in plasma- and astrophysics, the physics of biomolecules, cluster and surface physics as well as material science. It was the aim to give an overview on the actual situation, and in particular to propose either concrete examples or to discuss possible applications even though they might not yet been totally affirmed.
Concerning
the field of plasma- and astrophysics
the actual needs for efficient diagnostic tools based on the interaction or the
properties of highly charged ions have been discussed. On the one hand,
problems which are linked to the new generation of powerful tokamac devices, in particular to the
high energy dissipation in the divertor region, require the adding of cooling gases (rare gases) into the
discharge or the use of high-Z materials (for example tungsten) for the
surrounding walls. Under these modified conditions the role of highly charged
ions in fusion plasmas becomes very important and have to be reconsidered.
A precise determination of corresponding cooling rates and radiation losses
is essential and necessary (X-ray or EUV spectroscopy).
On the other hand, recent space missions by the NASA
and the ESA have produced a large amount of new spectroscopic data concerning
the X-ray emission of cold comets.
This emission (in the range of 200 to 700 eV) is attributed to the interaction
of the solar wind with the cometary gas. The modelling of the comet composition
and its physical conditions requires laboratory studies of the interaction of
light multiply charged ions (Nq+, Oq+) with small
molecules like
H2O, CO2, CO, HCN, CH4, dust and hydrocarbons.
In this context two collaborating groups have been initiated in the United
States and in Europe with the objective to increase our knowledge about these
collision systems. The European group is organised by J. Greenwood (QUB), who
convinced many LEIF-members to participate in this project. A summary of this
activity can be found on the web-site: ,
which will be linked to the LEIF homepage.
Two
other talks have been devoted to the physics of biomolecules and to cluster physics. In the first case, the
damage of the DNA molecule by the
formation of double strand breaks after irradiation and the correlation with
cell lethality has been the central point of discussion. Irradiation
experiments which have been performed so far with photons or high energy ions
could not give a unique response on the destruction mechanism (primary or
secondary effects after K-vacancy production) and the radio-biological effects.
Slow highly charged ions may allow for another experimental approach due to
their capacity to capture mainly valence electrons in a very localised manner.
First experiments are being performed within the network. With respect to the
interaction of ions with clusters (C60
and sodium clusters), the subjects of actual interest concern the energy
deposition in finite-size systems and the energy coupling and transfer between
different internal modes of complex systems. It has been pointed out that in
order to better understand the stability and the fragmentation mechanisms it is
necessary to measure energy- and angular-resolved fragmentation mass spectra.
As the cluster size can be varied over a wide range, these studies allow to
correlate these phenomena with those observed in the case of small molecules or
large-size systems like solids.
Finally,
two talks have been addressed to the interaction of ions with surfaces and with solid materials. In the first case, which represents a domain of
highly charged ions since many years already, the recent progress and new
results about Ar ions in medium charge states colliding with metal surfaces have been presented,
evidencing the occurrence of strong projectile shell effects. In addition,
X-ray measurements with projectiles in very high charge states (Pb55+)
have been analysed with respect to below- and above-surface emission and to the
influence of the projectile shell
structure. In the second case, it was the aim to discuss (and speculate about)
new potential possibilities concerning the use of highly charged ions for the
purpose of ion implantation. Several
direct applications have been proposed, reaching from transistor devices to the
advantages of highly charged ions in the so-called ion-beam assisted deposition
technique, to be applied for the growth of thin films. The characteristic
property which might be useful for different applications is the high potential
energy, which is carried by slow highly charged ions. This property may result
in the lowering of annealing temperatures which have to be applied in the
production schemes of different devices and may be used as an efficient tool
for surface modifications. Recent measurements have shown, that a large
fraction of this potential energy (~30%) is retained in the surface region of
the material, especially at low collision energies.
IV)
Discussions and
decisions of the NMB
(present : all
principal contractors ; excused : Ö. Skeppstedt)
During the session of the network management board 3 different aspects have been
discussed:
General
information concerning the network and the organisation of the
annual
meeting 2000 in Potsdam.
Analysis
of the present status of the network projects,
propositions for improvements and future activities.
Discussion
of the meetings and workshops planned in
2001 and preparation of the first annual LEIF-report.
(further specification : 40
users, 10 experts and 10 other scientists)
Number
of participating countries: 11 (10
Europe + USA)
Several inquiries
have been sent out with the aim to establish
an overview on the
actual situation in the
different projects. In general a corresponding answer has been given, however,
in some cases a faster and a more complete answer would have helped to keep the
demanding persons in a ‘highly motivated state’.
Concerning publications, we
agreed that the compilation on the central LEIF-web-page should include all
publications which are made by members or users of LEIF and which deal with
subjects relevant to low energy ion beam facilities. Those publications which
are a result of LEIF-collaborations or which have been carried out within the
network should include in the acknowledgements a sentence like:
‘This work has been carried
out within the framework of the European network LEIF (HPRI-CT-1999-40012)’.
In order to discuss specific
subjects in more detail and more extensively, we discussed the possibility of
organising smaller workshops; ateliers, which should be open also to interested
persons outside of the network. This concerns mainly the projects 4 to 6, which
deal with detector systems, ion beam production and ion beam control and
deceleration. The corresponding persons in charge agreed to organise such
a meeting either as a separate workshop
or as a satellite to the main LEIF-meeting. As possible venues Giessen and
Aarhus have been proposed.
d) The date of the next annual meeting
(2001 on Crete) has been fixed to the 11th - 16th of
September 2001. The local organiser has been asked to find a suitable
conference place with reasonable prices to allow in particular young scientists
to participate in this meeting. The meeting will include a formation in form of
practical courses concerning the software packet LabView.
The success of a
network depends primarily on the participants and the initiatives and ideas,
which they propose and develop. In particular, young scientists play an
important role in this respect, as they can contribute very often with new, original
and unconventional propositions. Therefore, it is desirable to create a
platform, where these people can express their ideas and formulate their needs
concerning their future, a so-called young scientist forum. A first session has
been organised during the annual meeting on Saturday afternoon.
The forum was organised by the chairmen Volker Hofmann
(HMI) and Johannes Stöckl (TUW) at the Hahn-Meitner-Institut Berlin. The
meeting was attended by ten persons.
It was the aim of this first
meeting to present and to introduce the new forum and to discuss with the
participants several topics and first initiatives.
One of this topics concerned
the creation of an e-group mailing list. This will open the possibility of fast
communication between the currently 10 members of the forum. This instrument
will be used to discuss specific problems in physics but will serve also as a
platform for job-offers or student exchanges, avoiding too much bureaucracy.
During the discussion it
turned out that especially exchange possibilities are of great interest for
students, as they allow the diploma students to see and compare the
organisation of and experimental work at different laboratories. This will
increase the competitiveness of our students on the job-market. This is
important as many graduate students are applying for positions in industry. The
LEIF-network should therefore help our students to participate in different
experiments at laboratories within the network.
Another
objective is the design of a young scientist homepage which will become part of
the LEIF-network Internet site.
Concerning
the next annual meeting in Greece in September 2001, the needs and the
possibilities of organising a LabView course for the participants has been
discussed. A strong interest in such a formation has been expressed.
V.
Hoffmann, J. Stöckl
VI) Annex:
a) Programme of the annual meeting
b) Poster presentations
c) List of participants
a)
Programme of the annual meeting
Thursday
evening (19.10.2000) (network-intern)
2000
- 2100 NMB-meeting (network management board)
Friday (20.10.2000)
830 Welcome N.
Stolterfoht (HMI-Berlin)
B.
Huber (CEA-Grenoble)
Quality (chair: H. Lebius (CEA-Grenoble))
850 Quality
in basic research R.
Duc (CEA-Saclay)
940 Coffee
1000 - 1200
Presentation of LEIF - infrastructures (installation / physics projects)
(chair: B. Huber,
CEA-Grenoble) / (12+3 min each)
Aarhus P. Hvelplund
Belfast R.W.
McCullough
Berlin N.
Stolterfoht
Gießen R. Trassl
Grenoble H. Lebius
Groningen R. Morgenstern
Stockholm R. Schuch
Wien F. Aumayr
1200 CIRIL-Caen J.P.
Grandin (CIRIL-Caen)
1215 MPI-Heidelberg J.
Ullrich (Univ. Freiburg)
1230 - 1400 Lunch
Experimental aspects (corresponding to different LEIF-projects)
(chair: project organizers)
1400 A
Multipixel Detector for Multihit
Detection and Position (project 4) S. Della-Negra (IPN-Orsay)
1430 DEBIT-Dresden
Electron Beam Ion Trap (project 5)
G. Zschornack (TU-Dresden)
1500 Low-Energy
Ions (project
6)
octopole
systems R. Morgenstern (KVI-Groningen)
electrostatic
deceleration J.P. Briand (ERIS-Paris)
1540 Coffee
1600-1900 Poster session
Experiments at LEIF infrastructures
(results and future projects 2000/2001)
2000 Dinner
Saturday
(21.10.2000)
Research
with HCIs
chair: HP. Winter (TU-Wien)
830 Fusion-relevant
data of HCI C. Biedermann (MPI-Berlin)
900 HCIs
and diagnostic of comets J. Greenwood (QUB-Belfast)
930 Biomolecules
and HCIs A. Chetioui (GPS-Paris)
1000 Coffee
chair: N. Stolterfoht (HMI-Berlin)
1030 Ion-cluster
collision theory U. Saalmann (MPI-PKS-Dresden)
1100 Ion-surface
interaction : Ion scattering
and
X-ray emission
R. Schuch (Stockholm University)
1130 Ion
Implantation-New possibilities
by
highly charged ions ? W.
Möller (FZ-Rossendorf)
1200 - 1330 Lunch
1330-1500 Progress reports in LEIF-
projects
(LEIF-intern
- B. Huber )
1330 Information policy T.
Tzouros (FRT)
1345 Management and quality in the network H. Lebius (CEA)
1400 Online access Hp.
Winter (TUW)
1415 Detector systems H.O.Lutz
(UBI)
1430 Ion beam production P.
Hvelplund (UAA)
1445 Beam control and deceleration R. Morgenstern (KVI)
1400 - 1500 Young scientist
forum
V. Hoffmann (HMI-Berlin)
J. Stoeckl (TU-Wien) (presentation,
discussion)
1500 - 1800 Outing or visit of castle Sanssouci
(Grand Palais)
(depending
on weather conditions)
2000 Dinner
b) Poster presentations
1.
Charge transfer in ion-ion collisions (JLU-Giessen)
2.
Compact All-Permanent Magnet ECR Ion Sources (JLU-Giessen)
3.
Multi-anode detector (LASIM-Lyon)
4.
Fragmentation of fullerenes using multiply charged
ions (LASIM-Lyon)
5.
Low energy ion beam facility at QUB (QUB-Belfast)
6.
Low energy ion beam projects at QUB (QUB-Belfast)
7.
The accelerator AIM at Grenoble (CEA-Grenoble)
8.
Ion collisions with clusters and molecules (CEA-Grenoble)
9.
ECR-source for organic molecules and bio-molecules (LFU-Innsbruck)
10. Multiply charged rare
gas and carbon clusters (LFU-Innsbruck)
11. Position sensitive
MCP-detectors (RoentDek, Frankfurt)
12. Acceleration and
characterization of gold nano-droplet beams + New
molecular ion source
development (TANCREDE project) (IPN-Orsay)
13. Physics involving
HCIs : LEIF-related projects at IAP / TU Wien (TU-Wien)
14. Spectroscopic
investigations of highly charged iridium ions at the
Dresden EBIT (TU-Dresden)
15. Population of trions
in ion/surface collisions (LCAM-Orsay)
16. Interaction between
low charged ions and C60 molecules (IRSAMC-Toulouse)
17. Inner-shell electron
capture in slow ion-atom and ion-molecule collisions (CIRIL-Caen)
18. Electron impact
ionisation and dissociation of molecular ions
(Louvain la Neuve)
19. Energy loss of fast N
ions at grazing incidence of Pt(100) (Univ. Osnabrück)
20. First results of the
Freiburg Electron Ion Beam Trap and Source (MPI-Heidelberg)
21. Multi-ionisation and
fragmentation of small molecules (Univ. Bielefeld)
22. High resolution Auger
spectroscopy of highly charged ions in collisions with atoms
(FORTH, Greece)
23. Deceleration of HCI
on surfaces (ERIS-Paris)
24. New technique for ion
deceleration on surfaces (ERIS-Paris)
25. Fragmentation of
fullerenes (KVI-Groningen)
26. Photon emission from
low-energy ion collisions (KVI-Groningen)
27. ECR facility at ISL
Berlin (HMI-Berlin)
28. Ion scattering in
nano-capillaries (HMI-Berlin)
29. Experimental program
at the Manne Siegbahn Laboratory (MSL-Stockholm)
30. The CRYRING facility
at the Manne Siegbahn Laboratory
(MSL-Stockholm)
31. The Aarhus EBIS
Storage Ring (ASTRID) Program (University of Aarhus)
32. Large Molecules in a
Small Storage Ring (ELISA) (University of Aarhus)
33. Status and new
developments at the 14.5 GHz AOMKI ECRIS
(ATOMKI-Debrecen)
34. Double electron
capture and radiative stabilisation in
low-energy
Ne10+ + He collisions (ATOMKI-Debrecen)
35. CODIAN-Controlling an
ECR-Source with LabVIEW (HMI-Berlin)
c) List of participants (60)
A) Infrastructures and internal users (18)
H. Lebius CEA-Grenoble
N.
Stolterfoht HMI-Berlin
V. Hoffmann ’’
J.
Bundesmann ’’
U.
Stettner ’’
E.
Salzborn Univ.
Giessen
R. Trassl ’’
H. Bräuning ’’
R.
Morgenstern KVI-Groningen
Ö.
Skeppstedt MSL
Stockholm
R.W. McCullough QUB Belfast
J. Greenwood ’’
HP.
Winter TU
Wien
F.
Aumayr ’’
J. Stöckl ’’
P.
Hvelplund Aarhus
University
B) Users (22)
J.P. Briand Université Paris
VI
G. Giardino ’’
S.
Daveau ’’
T.D. Märk Leopold Franzens Universität,
Innsbruck
P. Scheier ’’
S. Matt ’’
H.O. Lutz Universität
Bielefeld
U. Werner ’’
B. Siegmann ’’
I. Küster ’’
T. J.M. Zouros FORTH, Greece
S. Martin Université Lyon
I
Li Chen ’’
A. Bordenave Montesquieu Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse
P. Roncin Univ. Paris-Sud,
Orsay Y.
Chesnel Ciril Caen
F. Fremont ’’
H.
Winter HU
Berlin
B.
Sulik ATOMKI,
Debrecen
P. Defrance Univ. Louvain la
Neuve
A. Cassimi CIRIL-Caen
W.
Heiland Univ.
Osnabrück
C) Invited Experts (speakers) (10)
G. Zschornack
TU-Dresden
(Rossendorf)
C. Biedermann MPI - Berlin
A.
Chetioui Paris
VII
U.
Saalmann MPI-Dresden
R.
Schuch Stockholm
University
W. Möller FZ Rossendorf
R. Duc CEA-Saclay
J.
Ullrich Universität
Freiburg
J.P. Grandin CIRIL-Caen
S. Della-Negra IPN-Orsay
D) Other participants (10)
D. Schneider Lawrence Livermore
Laboratory (USA)
A.
Landers Western
Michigan University (USA) J.
Tanis ’’
Radtke MPI-Berlin
T. Fuchs ’’
F. Ullmann TU-Dresden
V.P. Ovsyannikov ’’
O. Jagutzki IFK Frankfurt D.
Vernhet GPS, Paris VI F.
Herzog HMI-Berlin
E) Country code :
Austria 6
Belgium 1
Denmark 2
France 17
Germany 23
Greece 1
Hungary 1
Netherlands 1
Sweden 2
United
Kingdom 3
United
States 3