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Production of C Directly from CO2 Using the ANIS Sputter Source

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

Jan Heinemeier
Affiliation:
Institute of Physics, University of Aarhus, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
Hans Henrik Andersen
Affiliation:
Institute of Physics, University of Aarhus, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
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Abstract

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Micro-ampere beams of C have been produced with the Aarhus negative-ion source, operated on CO2 gas. The efficiency of the source and memory effects have been measured, using 13C-enriched CO2, in order to evaluate the applicability of the source to 14C dating by accelerator mass spectroscopy.

Type
VIII. Technical Aspects of Accelerator Mass Spectrometry
Copyright
Copyright © The American Journal of Science 

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