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When beam ions collide with residual gas molecules, some molecules are ionized remaining in an excited state with a certain probability. In a N2-dominated residual gas composition, a strong fluorescence at 390 nm < lamda < 470 nm (blue), of about 60 ns lifetime, is generated by a transition band to the N2+ electronic ground state.