Measurements of an ion beam diameter extracted into air through a glass capillary

To establish techniques for in-air materials analysis using a glass capillary, we studied the beam distribution extracted in air as a function of the distance between the exit of the capillary and the target. We measured three-dimensional intensity distributions of the extracted beams, and compared the observed results with the model calculation. The comparison showed that the glass capillary technique is designed to reduce a divergence of the beam extracted into the air by a beam-focusing effect.