Collisional activated decomposition spectrum

The collisional phenomena occurring in a triple quadrupole (as well as in sector machines) lead to the production of an ion population with a wide internal energy distribution, due to the statistics of the preselected ion-target gas interactions. Hence, various decomposition channels, exhibiting different critical energies, can be activated. The resulting MS/MS spectrum is, in general, rich in peaks and, consequently, in analytical information. 

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