A new series of uranium isotope reference materials for investigating the linearity of secondary electron multipliers in isotope mass spectrometry

International Journal of Mass Spectrometry

Volumn 281, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 115-125

  Richter, S ^a   Alonso, A ^a   Aregbe, Y ^a   Eykens, R ^a   Kehoe, F ^a   Kuhn H ^a   Kivel, N ^b   Verbruggen, A ^a   Wellum, R ^a   Taylor, P D P ^a  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^b PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Linearity; Reference materials; Secondary electron multipliers; Uranium

Indexed keywords

EID: 61449201145     PISSN: 13873806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijms.2009.01.002     Document Type: Article

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