The pump(s) 70 can be any suitable pump, typically small, light weight pumps. Examples of pumps include, for example only, a TPS Bench (SH110 and Turbo-V 81 M pumps) compact pumping system and/or a TPS compact (IDP-3 and TurboV 81M pumps) pumping system from Agilent Technologies, Santa Clara, Calif. Operational pressures at or above 50 mTorr can be easily achieved by mechanical displacement pumps such as rotary vane pumps, reciprocating piston pumps, or scroll pumps.
Ions can be accumulated for a defined time for a respective scan, such as between about 1-30 milliseconds, typically between about 1-10 milliseconds, before analysis, in some embodiments. Successive scans can be averaged for each analysis, typically between 20-1000 individual scans.