Agilent 6400 Series Triple Quad LC/MS Concepts Guide 5
Contents
1 Overview 7
What kind of system do you have? 8
Help for applications 9
Help for acquisition 10
Help for data analysis 11
2 Inner Workings – Triple Quadrupole MS versus Single Quadrupole
MS 13
Single quadrupole MS operation 14
Design for a single quadrupole mass spectrometer 14
How a single quadrupole mass spectrometer works 15
Triple quadrupole MS operation 21
Design of the Agilent Triple Quadrupole MS 21
Innovative Enhancements in the 6490 Triple Quadrupole 23
Innovative Enhancements in the 6460 Triple Quadrupole 25
Innovative Enhancements in the 6430 Triple Quadrupole 27
Innovative Enhancements in the 6420 Triple Quadrupole 27
How a triple quadrupole mass spectrometer works 27
How Dynamic MRM works 30
How Triggered Dynamic MRM works 33
3 Agilent Triple Quadrupole MS and Sensitivity 39
How the Agilent Triple Quadrupole MS improves sensitivity 40
Noise reduction 40
Example of chemical noise reduction 43
Linearity of the Agilent 6400 Series Triple Quadrupole MS 45
How each component works to improve sensitivity 46