Design and reality : continuous-flow accelerator mass spectrometry (CFAMS)

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2010-09
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von Reden, Karl F. 
Roberts, Mark L. 
McIntyre, Cameron P. 
Burton, Joshua R. 
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https://hdl.handle.net/1912/5012
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nimb.2011.04.019
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 Ion optics; Computer modeling; Microwave ion source; Continuous-flow AMS 
Abstract
In 2007 we published the design of a novel accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) system capable of analyzing gaseous samples injected continuously into a microwave plasma gas ion source. Obvious advantages of such a system are drastically reduced processing times and avoidance of potentially contaminating chemical preparation steps. Another paper in these proceedings will present the progress with the development of the microwave gas ion source that has since been built and tested at the National Ocean Sciences AMS Facility in Woods Hole. In this paper we will review the original design and present updates, reflecting our recent encouraging experience with the system. A simple summary: large acceptance ion beam optics design is beneficial to accelerator mass spectrometry in general, but essential to AMS with plasma gas ion sources.
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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): 3176–3179, doi:10.1016/j.nimb.2011.04.019.
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Preprint: von Reden, Karl F., Roberts, Mark L., McIntyre, Cameron P., Burton, Joshua R., "Design and reality : continuous-flow accelerator mass spectrometry (CFAMS)", 2010-09, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nimb.2011.04.019, https://hdl.handle.net/1912/5012