Examination of the collisional cooling effect of the buffer gases on ion trapping and detection in an ion trap mass spectrometer has been undertaken by the SIMION 3D program. Computation for the kinetic energy of ions under various conditions was used to account for the effects of collisional cooling of ions. Several parameters that may affect the collisional cooling effects of ions are evaluated including the existence and the variation of pressure of the buffer gas; the temperature of the ion trap; the size of the inner radius of the ion trap electrodes; the mass to charge ratio of ions; the alternative buffer gases and the qz. values which establish the ion trap trapping environment.
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Journal of the Chinese Chemical Society 46(6), pp.923-932
