Rapid scanning of wide quadrupole RF windows while toggling fragmentation energy

摘要

A sample is ionized using an ion source and the ion beam is received using a tandem mass spectrometer. An m/z range is divided into two or more precursor ion isolation windows. Two or more values for a fragmentation parameter are selected. A first value of the two or more values for the fragmentation parameter has a level that fragments a minimal amount of ions of the ion beam. The one or more additional values have increasingly aggressive levels that produce increasingly more fragmentation of the ions of the ion beam. For each precursor ion isolation window, the tandem mass spectrometer is instructed to perform a selection and fragmentation of the ion beam using the precursor ion isolation window and the first value and is instructed to perform one or more additional selections and fragmentations of the ion beam using the precursor ion isolation window and using the one or more additional values.