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Radioisotope Detection with the Argonne FN Tandem Accelerator*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

Walter Kutschera ,
Walter Henning ,
Michael Paul ,
E J Stephenson  and
J L Yntema
Walter Kutschera
Affiliation:
Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439
Walter Henning
Affiliation:
Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439
Michael Paul
Affiliation:
Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439
E J Stephenson
Affiliation:
Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439
J L Yntema
Affiliation:
Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439
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Abstract

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A standard heavy ion nuclear structure facility has been used to detect several long-lived radioisotopes by counting the accelerated ions. The problem of eliminating strong isobaric background beams has been solved by combining the energy loss dispersion through a uniform Al foil stack with the high momentum resolution of an Enge split-pole magnetic spectrograph. Radioisotope concentrations in the following ranges have been measured: 14C/12C = 10–12 to 10–13, 26Al/27Al = 10–10 to 10–12, 32Si/Si = 10–8 to 10–14, 36Cl/Cl = 10–8 to 10–11.

Type
Accelerator Techniques
Information
Radiocarbon , Volume 22 , Issue 3: Heidelberg , 1980 , pp. 807 - 815
Copyright
Copyright © The American Journal of Science

Footnotes

*

Work performed under the auspices of the US Department of Energy

**

On leave from Fachbereich Physik, Technische Universität München, D-8046 Garching, West Germany

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