The combination of in-flight fragment separator and the isochronous mass spectrometry(IMS)in storage rings have been proven to be a powerful tool for the precision mass measurements of shortlived exotic nuclei. In IMS, the mass-over-charge ratio is only related to the revolution period of stored ions, and the relative mass resolution can reach up to the order of 10-6. However, the instability of the magnetic field of storage ring deteriorates the resolution of revolution period, making it very difficult to distinguish the ions with very close mass-over-charge ratio via their revolution periods. To improve the resolution of revolution periods, a new method of weighted shift correction(WSC) has been developed to accurately correct the influence of the magnetic field instabilities in the isochronous mass measurements of ^(58)Ni projectile fragments. By using the new method, the influence of unstable magnetic fields can be greatly reduced, and the mass resolution can be improved by a factor up to 1.7. Moreover, for the ions that still cannot be distinguished after correcting the magnetic field instabilities, we developed a new method of pulse height analysis for particle identification. By analyzing the mean pulse amplitude of each ion from the timing detector, the stored ions with close mass-over-charge ratios but different charge states such as ^(34)Ar and ^(51)Co can be identified, and thus the mass of ^(51)Co can be determined. The charge-resolved IMS may be helpful in the future experiments of isochronous mass measurement even for N = Z nuclei.
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