ABSTRACT
Microchannel plates (MCPs) are the most important detection devices in modern atomic physics. MCPs are especially suited for detecting various atomic particle species (including photons) produced in atomic collisions not only
Ion
due to their high quantum efficiency (QE) in the relevant energy range, but also because of the high temporal and spatial resolution over a fairly large sensitive surface with high particle throughput. MCPs are ultra-high vacuum compatible and fairly insensitive to external magnetic and electric fields, which makes them easy to use in a typical scattering experiment often involving electrostatic and/or magnetic guiding fields for charged particles [1].
