Mass spectrometer

Abstract

Every time a target sample is injected from an injector () of an LC unit () and a mass spectrometry for a target component in the sample is performed, a CD voltage applied to a conversion dynode of an ion detector () is switched. For each of the multiple CD-voltage levels, a data collector () collects noise data during a period of time where no component is present and intensity data of an ion originating from the target component, while the SN ratio calculator () calculates an SN ratio. After the actual measurement is completed, an optimum CD voltage determiner () compares the SN ratios calculated for each CD voltage, finds the CD voltage which gives the highest SN ratio, and stores this voltage in an optimum CD voltage memory () as an optimum CD voltage for the analysis conditions at that point in time and for the m/z of the analysis target. According to this method, even when the flow rate of the mobile phase is particularly high or when a hard-to-vaporize mobile phase is used, the CD voltage is appropriately set and a detection signal is obtained with high SN ratios.