Such beams are used with a variety of spectroscopic techniques to explore the structure of exotic nuclei.
Scientists then use spectroscopic techniques to identify the isolated fragments.
It may also be useful in cases where the surface energy has some effect on a spectroscopic technique being used on the solid in question.
Some of the common near field spectroscopic techniques are:
Most spectroscopic techniques fall into this category.
All of these factors must also be accounted for while designing operando experiments, as the spectroscopic techniques used may alter the reaction conditions.
There are spectroscopic, alchemical, and symbolical techniques for identifying where one came from; I'm not too well up on that.
An advantage of this spectroscopic technique is that the ions can be detected with almost complete efficiency and even resolved for their mass.
This allows the subsequent spectroscopic technique to be applied to specific eluants for identification with high sensitivity.
As with all spectroscopic techniques, it can be used to identify and study chemicals.