Competitive 10Be measurements below 1 MeV with the upgraded ETH-TANDY AMS facility

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

Volumn 268, Issue 17-18, 2010, Pages 2801-2807

  Muller A M ^a   Christl, M ^a   Lachner, J ^a   Suter, M ^a   Synal, H A ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

10Be; 9Be background; Achromatic system; Boron suppression; Ion source; Low energy AMS; Magnetic spectrometer; TANDY

Indexed keywords

10BE; 9BE BACKGROUND; ACHROMATIC SYSTEM; LOW-ENERGY AMS; MAGNETIC SPECTROMETERS;

BORON; BORON COMPOUNDS; ION SOURCES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROMETERS; PARTICLE SPECTROMETERS; SPECTROMETRY;

IONS;

EID: 77955515515     PISSN: 0168583X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nimb.2010.05.104     Document Type: Article

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