The French accelerator mass spectrometry facility ASTER: Improved performance and developments

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms

Volumn 268, Issue 11-12, 2010, Pages 1954-1959

  Arnold, Maurice ^a   Merchel, Silke ^a,b   Bourlès, Didier L ^a   Braucher, Régis ^a   Benedetti, Lucilla ^a   Finkel, Robert C ^a,c   Aumaître, Georges ^a   Gottdang, Andreas ^d   Klein, Matthias ^d  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b INSTITUTE OF ION BEAM PHYSICS AND MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d High Voltage Engineering Europa BV   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Accelerator mass spectrometry; Calibration; Terrestrial cosmogenic nuclides (TCN)

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATOR MASS SPECTROMETRY; ACCEPTANCE TESTS; BACKGROUND LEVEL; PROFICIENCY TESTING; REFERENCE MATERIAL; ROUND ROBIN; SELF-MONITORING; TERRESTRIAL COSMOGENIC NUCLIDES; TIME VARIABILITY; VOLATILE ELEMENTS;

CALCIUM; CALIBRATION; ION SOURCES; ISOTOPES; MATERIALS TESTING; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; STANDARDS; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

MASS SPECTROMETRY;

EID: 77953137384     PISSN: 0168583X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nimb.2010.02.107     Document Type: Article

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