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Motivation

• Tandem Mass Spectrometry is vital for proteomics studies.
  
  
• Electron capture dissociation (ECD) and electron transfer dissociation (ETD) recently emerged as very promising tools in unraveling primary and secondary structures of proteins as well as post translational modifications (PTMs).
  
  
• We are developing a novel Tandem Mass Spectrometer based on emerging technology of electrostatic traps and employing ECD/ETD processes and VUV laser photofragmentation.
  
  
• The goal is to develop a prototype for the next generation of inexpensive, high-reslution Mass Spectrometers with ideal configuration to exploit alternative non-ergodic fragmentation methods, dissociative recombination and ion reaction kinetics and dynamics.