Patent ID: 11075067

Abstract:
After a precursor ion has been captured within an ion trap (2), electrons having a high energy equal to or higher than 30 eV are introduced from an electron irradiator (7) into the ion trap (2) to increase the number of charges of the ion through an interaction between the electrons and the ion. Hydrogen radicals are subsequently introduced from a hydrogen radical irradiator (5) into the ion trap (2) to dissociate the ion by a hydrogen-attachment dissociation (HAD) method. The larger the number of charges of the ion is, the higher the dissociation efficiency by the HAD method becomes. Therefore, for example, even in the case of using an ion source in which most of the generated ions are singly charged ions as in a MALDI ion source, the dissociation efficiency can be improved by increasing the number of charges of the precursor ion within the ion trap (2).