“…It is well known in BFS that the charge distribution of the ions after the foil varies with the kinetic energy of the ions. For example, if 250 keV boron ions are used, the distribution is approximately 17% (neutral B), 59% (B + ), 21% (B 2+ ), and 2% (B 3+ ), whereas with 1.50 MeV it is 12% (B + ), 50% (B 2+ ), 35% (B 3+ ) and 3% (B 4+ ) (see Bickel et al [29], Martinson et al [9], and To and Drouin [30]). This variation of the charge state distribution was used to discriminate the lines belonging to different stages of ionization in the beam-foil spectra.…”