Progress with a gas-accepting ion source for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry
Progress with a gas-accepting ion source for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry
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2010-08
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Roberts, Mark L.
von Reden, Karl F.
McIntyre, Cameron P.
Burton, Joshua R.
von Reden, Karl F.
McIntyre, Cameron P.
Burton, Joshua R.
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Accelerator mass spectrometry
Gas ion source
Plasma ion source
Gas ion source
Plasma ion source
Abstract
The National Ocean Sciences AMS (NOSAMS) facility at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution has developed a novel, gas-accepting microwave-plasma ion-source. The source is a key component of a compact Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (AMS) system built for the analysis of 14C in a continuously flowing gas stream. The gas source produces carbon currents from a stream of CO2 with currents typical of a traditional graphite source. Details of the gas source, including ion current achieved, optimal flow rate, efficiency, and memory are presented. Additionally, data obtained from coupling a gas chromatograph to the source to will be shown.
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Author Posting. © The Author(s), 2010. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of Elsevier B.V. for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms 269 (2011): 3192–3195, doi:10.1016/j.nimb.2011.04.017.