Research Article

Pulsed Supersonic Beams from High Pressure Source: Simulation Results and Experimental Measurements

Figure 18

Temperature rise in a blunt skimmer [40]. The flowing gas is neon (energy accommodation coefficient 0.8) at 1 K and a number density of atoms/ . Skimmer entrance aperture is 1 mm. The temperature soak, lasting only few mS can destroy fragile clusters in the beam.
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