Peculiarities of proton transmission through tapered glass capillaries

Abstract

A study of the 150–320 keV proton beam transmission through tapered glass (borosilicate) capillaries with different diameters of the input and output of the capillary was performed. The focusing effect was observed. The areal density of the transmitted beam is enhanced by approximately 20 times. It was shown that changing a taper angle from 0.5 deg to 1.7 deg evidences increase of the transmission coefficient by more than 300 times keeping the initial energy spectrum of ions. The ion transmission through self-ordered nanoporous alumina membranes prepared by anodic oxidation of high-purity aluminium was studied for different energies of ions.