From carbon to actinides: a new universal 1MV accelerator mass spectrometer at ANSTO

Wilcken, KM; Hotchkis, MAC; Levchenko, VA; Fink, D; Hauser, T; Kitchen, R

From carbon to actinides: a new universal 1MV accelerator mass spectrometer at ANSTO

Date

2015-10-15

Authors

Publisher

Elsevier

Abstract

A new 1 MV NEC pelletron AMS system at ANSTO is presented. The spectrometer comprises large radius magnets for actinide measurements. A novel feature of the system is fast switching between isotopes both at low and high energy sections allowing measurements of up to 8 isotopes within a single sequence. Technical details and layout of the spectrometer is presented. Performance data for 14C, 10Be, 26Al and actinides demonstrate the system is ready for routine AMS measurements. © 2015 Elsevier B.V.

Keywords

ANSTO, Spectrometers, Accelerators, Mass spectroscopy, Carbon 14, Beryllium 10, Aluminium 26, Uranium 236, Isotopes, Measuring instruments

Citation

Wilcken, K. M., Hotchkis, M., Levchenko, V., Fink, D., Hauser, T., & Kitchen, R.(2015). From carbon to actinides: a new universal 1MV accelerator mass spectrometer at ANSTO. Paper presented at the AMS-13 The Thirteenth International Conference on Accelerator Mass Spectrometry, 24-29 August 2014, Aix en Provence, France. In Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms, 361, 133-138. doi:10.1016/j.nimb.2015.04.054.