Determination of a three-step excitation and ionization scheme for resonance ionization and ultratrace analysis of Np-237

Spectrochimica Acta - Part B Atomic Spectroscopy

Volumn 66, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 242-247

  Raeder, S ^a   Stobener N ^a   Gottwald, T ^a   Passler, G ^a   Reich, T ^a   Trautmann, N ^a   Wendt, K ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Neptunium; Resonance ionization spectroscopy; RIMS

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC LEVELS; AUTOIONIZING RESONANCES; ENVIRONMENTAL SAMPLE; EVEN PARITY; GEOCHEMICAL RESEARCH; HIGH-LYING LEVELS; INTERMEDIATE LEVEL; MAJOR HAZARDS; NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLES; NUCLEAR WASTE; ODD-PARITY; OPTICAL EXCITATIONS; OVERALL EFFICIENCY; RELATIVE EFFICIENCY; RESONANCE IONIZATION MASS SPECTROMETRY; RESONANCE IONIZATION SPECTROSCOPY; RESONANT EXCITATION; RIMS; SATURATION BEHAVIOR; SENSITIVE METHOD; ULTRA-TRACE ANALYSIS; ULTRATRACES;

ANALYTICAL GEOCHEMISTRY; ATOMIC SPECTROSCOPY; IONIZATION; ISOTOPES; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NEPTUNIUM; NUCLEAR FUEL REPROCESSING; PHOTOEXCITATION; PLUTONIUM; RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL; RADIOACTIVE WASTES; RESONANCE; WASTE DISPOSAL;

TRACE ANALYSIS;

EID: 79957830799     PISSN: 05848547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sab.2011.02.002     Document Type: Article

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