5 Years of Ion-Laser Interaction Mass Spectrometry - Status and Prospects of Isobar Suppression in AMS by Lasers

Autor(en)

Martin Martschini, Johannes Lachner, Karin Hain, Michael Kern, Oscar Marchhart, Johanna Pitters, Alfred Priller, Peter Steier, Andreas Wiederin, Alexander Wieser, Robin Golser

Abstrakt

A setup for ion-laser interaction was coupled to the state-of-the-art AMS facility VERA five years ago and its potential and applicability as a new means of isobar suppression in accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) has since been explored. Laser photodetachment and molecular dissociation processes of anions provide unprecedented isobar suppression factors of >10(10) for several established AMS isotopes like Cl-36 or Al-26 and give access to new AMS isotopes like Sr-90, Cs-135 or Hf-182 at a 3-MV-tandem facility. Furthermore, Ion-Laser InterAction Mass Spectrometry has been proven to meet AMS requirements regarding reliability and robustness with a typical reproducibility of results of 3%. The benefits of the technique are in principle available to any AMS machine, irrespective of attainable ion beam energy. Since isobar suppression via this technique is so efficient, there often is no need for any additional element separation in the detection setup and selected nuclides may even become accessible without accelerator at all.

Organisation(en)

Isotopenphysik

Journal

Radiocarbon

Band

64

Seiten

555-568

Anzahl der Seiten

14

ISSN

0033-8222

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1017/RDC.2021.73

Publikationsdatum

09-2021

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

103013 Ionenphysik, 103037 Umweltphysik

Schlagwörter

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Allgemeine Erdkunde und Planetologie, Archaeology

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/8eeedf09-0478-4e6c-b640-e76807d3df3f